It is a horrible thing. I just tried to find out how many casualties there were, and they're only speculating, and people are still missing. I feel so sorry for those families. I'm assuming people use that bridge to get to work and back everyday. What the heck are they going to do now if that's their only way to go?
Oh there are plenty of other bridges, tunnels, bridge-tunnels and ferries if need be for folks to traverse these rivers and lakes and bays on the eastern shore.
I drove the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel for 8 years and this Francis Scott Key Bridge for my last 7 years at Western Electric...now the CIA.
:essee///there was mighty Bethlehem Steel, a Chevrolet plant-or maybe Ford...getting old...western electric...subsidiary of AT&T....all kinds of industry used either a bridge or a tunnel to get from west to east and such.
But Lord it will be a mess.
And also....what with all these bridges and tunnels all about, should we do something about them? Maybe re-inspect them, give them another lookover.
But hey, we have Buttigieg so I worry not.
Looking at google earth it appears it might be about an 8-mile detour. We had a landslide here in Washington state that wiped out about 1000 feet of road causing a 100 mile detour for the towns upriver to get to the main highway.