Never fear, Buttiboy is on the way there!
Northbound span George Floyd Bridge.
Southbound span Breonna Taylor Bridge.
The Biden collection of Crooks, Idiots, and allied weird species will want a debt increase for the following:
1. New bridge: $100 million
2. DEI training $345 trillion
3. Ukraine: $400 billion
4. Relief for idiot college students who got worthless majors: $630 million
5. Sex change operation for folks with severe mental problems: $350 million
Well, I guess the silver lining is when they rebuild it the can change the name from some old racist White guy.
From the video, I see several issues of government irresponsibility:
1. It appears the pier/columns were not lighted.
2. There should have been pier protective cells on approaches from each direction, such as those shown protecting the high mast lights
It will also have to adhere to the Americans With Disability Act in its design.
We are having a new bridge built here to replace a 50+ year old bridge and the new bridge will be twice as long and twice as wide because of the ADA...................
Why didn’t they originally make it a suspension bridge?
“Kweisi Mfume Memorial Bridge”
A tunnel would ensure this doesn’t happen again.
I don’t think we CAN replace the bridge - we’ve sent most of our “spare” cash to Ukraine, (and gave the rest to Iran).
The recently collapsed bridge sections due to fires in Atlanta and one other place (CA?) were done much quicker than expected.
I wonder if they can set up ferry service to help with traffic.
Working from home will also help.
This will make “The Big Dig” look like a day at the park.
Yep, look how long it took to replace the I-95 bridge in nearby Alexandria. And the design choices, redesign, and so forth.
And a greenway, planted with grass, and CO2 consuming trees, and provided with benches, for pedestrian traffic. We’re way ahead in bridge design, here in Oregon.
I just looked at Google Maps and that bridge is still there...we’re being gaslit! /s
I agree with all posts on the rebuilding. There will be EPA studies, grift out the wazoo, and only "minority" contractors will be able to bid. As for the name, it will be the Freddie Gray Memorial Bridge. Gray was the criminal who, in 2015, was killed while in police custody. This sparked riots which led to the prosecution of six police officers (all acquitted) by the now disgraced DEI hire Marilyn Mosby.
I am 62 and I will be very surprised if this bridge is rebuilt in my life.
As of the time of my writing this, the FBI has already concluded it was not terrorism. I don't know about you, but I feel so much better. /sarcasm
For the most part I agree. However, I do think the new bridge will still be called the Francis Scott Key bridge. There’s no real controversy over him in Maryland, and the bridge is literally yards away from where Francis Scott Key watched the Battle of Baltimore and wrote the Star Spangled Banner. I think even in woke Maryland we’ll maintain the name. I could be wrong, but I’ve lived here for over 60 years and have literally never heard anyone complain about FSK.
If they were wise, they would immediately contract with an existing ferry company to serve traffic with provable destination less than 15 miles from the crossing.
Drivers transit Baltimore four way. The now defunct bridge, two tunnels (six lanes) and a long drawn out route through the city. I propose that the Old Harbor Tunnel on I-895 (two lanes each way) be reserved for commercial traffic only and the New Harbor tunnel (four lanes each way) be limited to passenger vehicles.
I also propose that the current construction on I-95 north of Baltimore be stopped for the duration to relieve massive congestion.
Of course, being Maryland, they will triple the tolls at the tunnels, build more mass transit and light rail and take 20 years to build the bridge
Let Maryland take it out of the funding of Illegals they so love, to pay for their own damned bridge....
My guess is that it will be called the Brian Frosh Bridge, after Maryland’s hard-left former Attorney General and State Senate leader.