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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was a good take by a shipping expert. https://slate.com/business/2024/03/baltimore-bridge-collapse-francis-scott-key-maryland-deaths.html[/quote] Just want to thank you for the link and recommend others read it. It put a lot of stuff into perspective for me and dispels some junk commentary floating around about certain aspects of the incident.[/quote] PP. Thank you, I’m an engineer and I found the context of the shipping industry very helpful. And I think he is right that the new bridge will be bigger and higher. I remember when the roadway on the Bayonne bridge in ny was raised to accommodate new Panamax ships. Those bigger ships became popular because the Panama Canal got new locks which allowed bigger boats. So what he is saying about the suez size constraint makes sense. Interesting read. [/quote] Raising the bridge won't change the size constraint because any ship coming into Baltimore needs to fit under the Bay Bridge.[/quote] Taxpayers paid almost $2 billion dollars to “raise” the Bayonne bridge. You don’t think new bridges that span harbors will be preemptively designed for larger ships? [/quote] I mean that’s great for those people but that doesn’t have anything to do with the Bay Bridge. I live in Stevensville in QAC and cross the bridge almost every day. Maryland just finished a several year study and expensive study on whether to replace the bridge or build a new bridge at 2 different sites and in the end decided to just keep the bridge as is. They are currently replacing the eastbound deck. [b]They’re not raising the bridge, not in our lifetime. [/b] https://mdta.maryland.gov/BayBridgeEastboundDeckReplacementProject[/quote] Infrastructure isn’t built for our lifetimes. If you think otherwise there’s a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you.[/quote]
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