Chris Rufo

The whole thing is like an episode of Portlandia, but then you realize, no, this is just how California builds its infrastructure.

It's actually in Los Angeles.

The governor unveiled this splashy project about five years ago to create a bridge for cougars, butterflies, and other small critters over the 101 freeway, over this kind of 10 lane interchange.

And so in other countries, in other states even, these things cost between five and $10 million.

Yeah, no, no, it's not the cougars at the Whole Foods in Venice.

In California though, it's cost,

about $114 million.

This is a different kind of cougar.

They're behind schedule.

It's a mountain lion.

There's really no end in sight.

And even that is kind of amazing.

They put a radical environmentalist in charge of the project who wears like bright pink construction gear.

You actually look at aerial shots of this bridge.

They're building a bridge from this kind of untouched wild lands where the cougar has a natural habitat.

She carries around a stuffed animal of a cougar.

And then they're building the bridge into a suburban neighborhood.

And they're doing stuff that's actually kind of amazing.

It's a public-private partnership where they have Native Americans performing sacred indigenous rituals for this overpass.

In some ways, it's like some environmentalist version of the purge where they're letting these cougars into this neighborhood filled with pets and children and elderly people.