[WKB]

After dark,raining, Dec to March

[WKB]

Be careful out there MS Ping

[Smokin' Joe]

You holding up traffic, now? (8^D)

[Red_Devil 232]

The NTP is nothing but a speed trap.

[dmet]

So running over them at 35 mph means they wont be killed?

Or ... going only 35mph will make it possible for drivers to see them on the road and swerve to miss them...

lots of luck

[Oatka]

Dozens of amphibians are killed by cars each night during the rainy nights in the December and March breeding season

I've heard the story about those innocent salamander-like Naughas being slaughtered to make Naughahyde sofas. This stretch of road must be where that happens.

[razorback-bert]

The Trace runs through my farm, hope they don’t find any of those frogs in the ponds. The actual old real Trace runs through it too, it is just a wide path running by a creek.

[Political Junkie Too]

Wow! How about the Love Bugs on the Florida Turnpike in June?

-PJ

[Slings and Arrows]

Could be worse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o2J2fI59so

[ApplegateRanch]

In order to increase the ability for these species to cross unharmed, a reduced speed limit of 35 mph at night, when raining, will be in effect, the National Park Service announced in a press release Wednesday.

So, a slow squash, instead of a quick squish?

Unless those salamanders are the size of rats,who is going to see them on a wet road at night in time to avoid them, even at 35?

Hello, Road Service? I'm in a ditch on I-20; I swerved to miss a salamander...yes; a salamander...QUIT LAUGHING AND SEND A DAMNED TOW TRUCK!

[Hawthorn]

What’s a salamander? Anything like a newt?

[wardaddy]

biggest issue on the Trace are the deer at night...no question.

if you keep it around 57-58 in the 50 mph stretches the rangers are not an issue

I have hit one deer in my 40 years on the Trace and so have several of my kin

I drive it a good bit...several times a week. Mostly northern end...from Florence-TN river to Hwy 100 terminus

and venture further south too every year

I grew up using the trace all around Jackson to Port Gibson (for the old MS river ferry to Lake Bruin) and up to Tupelo...Booneville...I was recently in Booneville...amazed at the growth and that bypass

I drove the trace from Lorman to Jackson recently...two weeks ago.

it’s a great southern forest and farmland road...I remember vaguely as a boy when the Resevoir outside Jackson first swallowed parts of the Old early paved trace...Lost Rabbit area

note to anyone...keep your head up around Howenwald TN (US 412 bridge)...it’s blocked off while they rebuild the bridge..it just jumps up on ya