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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for the update. Now I understand about the vehicles  Wow kudos to police for getting there and stopping traffic. This could have been so much worse. It is horrible for the workers though because it seems to be recovery now. I don’t think anyone is going to feel good going over a suspension bridge and seeing a boat near. Of all the things I have worried about..this was not in the kit but is now for sure. I hope there is a mandate for bridges like this to have some of the safety measures the Sunshine bridge in Florida has after their collapse in 1980. Apparently the new bridge has something underwater that forces a boat away if it comes too close to
pilings. This should be retrofitted for all these large suspension bridges.[/quote]

Construction started for this bridge in 1972 and completed in '77, before the Sunshine bridge collapse.  New bridges are built to withstand greater boat impacts (but the Dali really is gigantic - I wonder if newer bridges would have withstood a direct hit like this).  [/quote]

They had tugboats, to exit the harbor.

I saw a structural engineer on the news who said the container ships of today are at least twice the size of the biggest ships we had in the 70s when the Key bridge was designed and built.

I’m sad today for the lives lost but also for the loss of that lovely iconic bridge which I drove over so many times on my travels to and from law school in DC and my family further up the eastern seaboard.

I hope the new bridge is as lovely at the old one was, Baltimore deserves an iconic bridge. And maybe they need to bring back the tugboats?[/quote][/quote]

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