Railway underpass7/30/2023 ![]() ![]() He said he will ask officers to approach them again to see if it is a possibility going forward. ![]() What is being done to give pedestrians access to the footbridge at the railway station so they don’t have to make a long diversion?”Ĭouncil leader Richard Cook (C, Kingsway) said railway authorities were asked about access to the footbridge but were not very keen. “This is a well trodden route and a shortcut from the hospital to the bus station. READ MORE: Gloucester Rugby gets green light for function venue plans despite neighbours' concerns over noise He welcomed the news that work on upgrading the subway will start in January but is concerned the underpass will be closed for nine months. However, people without a train ticket will not be allowed to use the station’s footbridge to get across.Ĭouncillor Jeremy Hilton (LD, Kingsholm and Wotton) asked Gloucester City Council chiefs what was being done to provide access to the footbridge at a meeting last week. ![]() They will also be installing improved lighting and a widened northern entrance to remove the current blind corner. Great Western Railway will close the subway in January while work is underway to make it step free. We suggest considering the location and structural characteristics in designing and improving wildlife crossings, which do not only facilitate utilization, but also optimize animal movement processes such as migration.The underpass at Gloucester Railway Station will be closed for nine months while refurbishment works take place. To better conserve long-distance migrations, long-term studies using tracking data which evaluate optimal migration routes are needed. Our study suggests crossing location can affect animal migrations even if structures facilitate animal crossing. On average, antelopes prolong their migration distance by 86.19 km (SEM = 17.29 km) in order to access the underpass. We found that antelopes stray farther away from the optimal routes as they approach Wubei, indicating that animals have to deviate from their optimal migration pathway to access the railway underpass. We calculated the distance from actual migration routes recorded by Argos to the modelled optimal routes. We used two corridor modeling methods to identify optimal routes that theoretically require less energy to travel between seasonal habitats. We calculated the net-squared displacement of each animal to identify migration segments (wintering, calving, and migrating) based on Argos tracking data. Using the Wubei wildlife underpass along the QTR, we evaluated how underpass placement affects migration routes and decreases movement efficiency. The long-distance migration of Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii) is directly affected by the Qinghai-Tibet Railway (QTR). However, crossings placed at suboptimal locations may alter animals' natural movement pattern and decrease population fitness, which cannot be reflected solely by counts of animal use. Most efforts in evaluating crossing efficiency focus on counting animal use. ![]() Wildlife crossings are designed to mitigate barrier effects of transportation infrastructure on wildlife movement. ![]()
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