Ideas for keeping squirrels out of the road?

[SquirrelRefuge]

I live on a reasonably busy residential street in the country so the speed limit is 35mph, which is ridiculous given the housing density. Anyway, all day long I can watch from my kitchen window squirrels running (walking, meandering and occasionally sun bathing, etc) in the road and every month or so one gets squarshed. I hate this!!! I regularly run out and give up a sound scolding but so far, none of them seem get what my problem is. Any suggestions for discouraging this behavior?

[stepnstone]

I really wish there was an answer to this! I have buried at least 14 squirrels in the past several months from the same stretch of road not far from where I live. It is a neighborhood, speed limit is 30 not that anyone pays attention to that. I use that road, I know as anyone who uses that road that there are always squirrels in that stretch. I've never endangered myself or anyone else by avoiding hitting one. It's not the squirrels that is the problem, it's the inconsiderate drivers that don't give a squat!

[CritterMom]

If you and your neighbors are willing to complain like crazy at town hall (not for squirrels - nobody cares - you need to do it for the CHILDREN) they may just go out there and ppp a few speed bumps on that road to shut you up. We have a nmber of communitites where I live that have done that. Hit one of those doing 35 and, well, you won't ever do it again!

[stepnstone]

If you and your neighbors are willing to complain like crazy at town hall (not for squirrels - nobody cares - you need to do it for the CHILDREN) they may just go out there and ppp a few speed bumps on that road to shut you up. We have a nmber of communitites where I live that have done that. Hit one of those doing 35 and, well, you won't ever do it again!

That worked for us and we have them here on the island, it was mainly due to speeders as I have never seen a dead anything on our streets. Unfortunetly the street I deal with is not on the island. I don't understand why the residents of that street have not tried to do something about it, one would think they would get tired of all the dead carcasses in front of their homes. But then they have me picking them up, I'm sure my car is well known in that area. If it were not for my compassion to give the poor things a proper burial I'd like to line them up on their doorsteps, bet they would do something about it then. But... with my luck it would backfire on me. :injail

[Rocky1]

Restarting this thread. It's now 2015 and I'm having this same problem. Would like anyone's ideas about how to keep squirrels from sunbathing, etc. in the road.

My best idea is to put a repellent in the road. Has anyone tried that? If it worked or partially worked, what did you use? Alternatively, I could go on my jog every morning at their favorite hours and jog in the road. I'm better at getting out of the way when a car even begins down the street. Other ideas? Pros, cons, of these?

(Previous discussion was from 2011. We have all learned since then and there are new members with new ideas. Apparently, this is a timeless problem.)

[Spanky]

Here is an extremely ambitiously aid in helping keep squirrels out of the road:

http://thesquirrelboard.com/forums/showthread.php?50752-This-is-pretty-cool&highlight=bridge

I wish there was a good answer for this but I don't have one. We have a curve on a nearby street that too many are hit. Not sure the folks living around there would cooperate though and across the street is a state park / site.

[Rocky1]

Here is an extremely ambitiously aid in helping keep squirrels out of the road:

http://thesquirrelboard.com/forums/showthread.php?50752-This-is-pretty-cool&highlight=bridge

I wish there was a good answer for this but I don't have one. We have a curve on a nearby street that too many are hit. Not sure the folks living around there would cooperate though and across the street is a state park / site.

That's adorable!