The West Japan Railway Company recently teamed up with Suma Aqualife Park in Kobe, Japan to make their tracks safer. Not for its passengers or other humans, but for turtles.
They recently installed a turtle tunnel that passes underneath the tracks to keep turtles safe when they try to cross them.
Turtles have gotten crushed, or stuck in the track switches, multiple times, causing delays and harming the animals too.
The Suma Aqualife Park is a giant aquarium/beach park in Kobe that attracts lots of visitors, most of whom arrive by train. It's because of the park's proximity to the ocean that so many turtles have gotten stuck in the train tracks.
The most common way for the turtles to get stuck is when they try crawling over the railroad tracks and become trapped between the two high metallic rails, according to Rocket News.