Each year over 100,000 people tromp through a sensitive environmental wetlands and cross a dangerous active train track to access the world famous Trestles beach in Southern California. Fortunately, the Safe Trestles Competition recently unveiled five stunning solutions that pave a safe path to the beach while preserving this fragile ecosystem. The finalists showcase tangible low-impact solutions that could actually be built, are sensitive to the area, and reduce the danger of crossing the train tracks -- read on for a look at each one!
[...] by both a beach boardwalk and a charm bracelet, the Longest Bench meanders and loops like a chain and occasionally encounters [...]