Wildlife problems continue on new highway 51 - despite measures

The Swedish Transport Administration has taken a number of measures to prevent wildlife accidents on new national highway 51 between Svennevad and Pålsboda. The old road was affected by many wildlife accidents and that was wanted to prevent on the new road.

Among other things, a bridge is currently being built that the wild animals can cross.

Tunnels have also been built under the road as well as a special game network which prevents the wild boar from bending under.

After the road has been open for a month, new problems with wildlife have already been seen on the road.

The Swedish Transport Administration has built so-called ferries for access, ferries are a grid in the ground that animals cannot walk on. But these have caused problems.

According to county hunter Leif Granlöf, the deer crawl over the fares and in one case a deer was hit while the other had to be killed.

But it is not always that the deer come over. In some cases, passersby have seen how deer are trapped in the fares.

- You have put a lot of energy into safeguarding this route, but we have already seen how flocks of deer move in, says Leif Granlöf.

The Swedish Transport Administration regrets the new problems.

"It's not good, I don't know what to do about it," says Jonas Danielsson, project manager at the Swedish Transport Administration.

- We have made the ferries twice as long and I do not know if they have to be dimensioned in a different way, we have to think about that, he says.