Eli5: mowing highway medians and roadsides

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Why is it necessary to cut the grass on the sides of highways or the median strips?

I’m assuming there’s a reason other than aesthetics. Seems like it takes a fair amount of work to do the work, and it causes some disruption to traffic as they usually have to close a lane to do it.

But it also seems like it would be better for wildlife to leave the higher grass.

Is it safety? Visibility? Fire prevention? Anyone know?

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Mainly aesthetic reasons

Outside of butterflies, birds, bees we don’t want to encourage wildlife to try and get to the middle of a highway

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