Turtle tunnels? Yep, you read it right. During today’s show I told you about a Japanese railroad company that installed tunnels under the train tracks for turtles to cross safely. Sounds crazy huh? Well, given the fact that turtles were being killed by trains and trains were being delayed from turtles getting stuck in the track switches, something had to be done. The railroad company partnered with an animal park and together came up with a solution which was a turtle tunnel. This had never been done, nor was there a model to learn from. Now here is my point, this solution required thinking outside of the box! We should all look for ways to be creative and if necessary break from the status quo, in order to better ourselves and the world we live in. Remember… just because its never been done before doesn’t make it wrong.
This reminds of the story about the woman that asks the City Council to move the Deer Crossing Signs because they were in an unsafe place.