Posted on 03/26/2024 8:57:44 AM PDT by MeganC
The tragedy in Baltimore with the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge is fresh. Brave people are currently searching the dangerous tangled wreckage for any possible survivors and the dead.
But where the news media this morning is also talking about the impacts on shipping on the East Coast of the USA and the impacts on traffic on the East Coast it is a valid topic of discussion to consider the next steps.
1. Reopening the Port of Baltimore will be a priority. The NTSB will predictably conduct a speedy investigation and conclude the primary cause of the collapse as the cargo ship "Dali" having allided (correct word) with the bridge support.
The center span of the bridge will then be removed to clear the shipping channel. This may happen within a month if not sooner.
2. The bridge will be replaced. The questions are when and by what? Maryland being a Democrat regime the new bridge will cost untold billions, it will likely be a complex design, and it will of course have to feature a costly bike/pedestrian trail.
With the San Francisco Bay Bridge as an example it took fourteen years to replace the earthquake damaged section of the bridge with a costly and probably seismically unsound replacement. This came at an exorbitant cost.
The new bridge in Baltimore will likely take just as long to design, argue about, grift, and construct and no doubt multiple criminal scandals will occur during construction.
The Francis Scott Key Bridge replacement is very unlikely to bear the same name. In all due likelihood it will bear the name of someone favored by woke Democrats.
Anyone else care to weigh in here?
I forgot to address who it will be named after. Trans seems to be all the rage for the disgusting degenerate democrat party so probably the “Victims of Trans Violence Memorial Bridge”
I was thinking the same thing.
Or there favorite cop killer “Mumia Abu Jamal”
That seems to be the case - the power loss contributed to loss of manueverability.
But it doesn’t seem that wider spans would guarantee that this couldn’t happen.
“But it doesn’t seem that wider spans would guarantee that this couldn’t happen.”
I think it reduce the risk as the shipping lane would be wider.
I guess one question about the giant container ships is how do you bring one to halt - and I don’t see a mere dropping the anchor doing it very quickly.
I found this:
Methods of stopping a vessel
Inertia stop. Stopping the engine(s) and coasting to a standstill with the friction of sea and air overcoming the ship’s inertia. ...
Crash stop. A crash stop is when the engines are put astern to stop the ship as rapidly as possible. ...
Use of the rudder. ...
Astern affect. ...
Anchoring in an emergency.
I don’t know; it seems there’s a limit to ‘how wide’ they can be; and ships have to use channels. I don’t know much about this stuff, but an out-of-control ship is... out-of-control, and isn’t necessarily going to go where you want it to.
I just watched an NBC anchor say it could take “weeks, months or longer” to replace the bridge.
Stolen Conquered Indigenous Peoples Land Bridge is more accurate.
Conquered? Says who?
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