00:00In the Netherlands, they built a bridge specifically for squirrels.
00:05Seriously.
00:06In The Hague, so many red squirrels were getting hit trying to cross the busy N44 motorway between two forests
00:13that the city decided to do something about it.
00:16In 2012, they built the Eekhornbroeg, the squirrel bridge,
00:21a custom steel triangular bridge, 55 meters long, suspended high over the road,
00:27just so squirrels could cross safely.
00:30It cost 144,000 euros.
00:34And in the first years, cameras showed almost no squirrels used it.
00:38The media widely reported in 2016 that squirrels were largely ignoring it.
00:44Five squirrels was the joke number going around.
00:47That would be 30,000 euros per squirrel.
00:50The media called it the most expensive, most useless bridge in the world,
00:54a total economic waste.
00:56But here is the twist.
00:58They left it up.
01:00And 10 years later, by 2022, cameras showed it was finally working.
01:05Not just squirrels, but martins and other animals use it every day now.
01:10It was seen as a financial failure, but a kind gesture that eventually paid off.
01:15But anyway, should I go on now?
01:15It's over 500 km period!
01:15If I'm looking for it first, it's a sense of what I'm looking for.
01:15Yes, it's bene.
