Fascinating article about VDOT adding Bear Crossing signs because it’s unsafe for bears to cross the new improved U.S. 17

Four bears were killed on the old two-lane highway last year, said James Eure, project inspector on the new U.S. 17.

So when the state and federal agencies involved in planning the long-awaited road project came up with a laundry list of must-haves, it included the critter crossings.