The Chinese can put up a 1 km.steel pontoon bridge in 28 minutes. What’s this about a port out of action for months? Just make a swinging pontoon bridge...
In modern America? Are you kidding? You see how things get done around here. I 75 crosses the Ohio at Cincinnati. Kentucky, Ohio, DC and Cincinnati have been wrangling over how to replace the aging bridge for DECADES. Millions and millions of dollars in multiple studies, with every politician in two or three generations of them getting their hands on cash and woke, green opinions in. It should actually start soon. The last cost estimate was $3.9B up from the 2022 estimate of $2.6B and take 8 years!
From the Cincinnati Enquirer 1963
“The Brent Spence Bridge opens to traffic after nearly three years of construction. It’s named for Congressman Brent Spence, a Democrat from Newport who served 31 years in the U.S. House. The $10 million project is the first new Ohio River bridge in Cincinnati since 1891. Designed to carry 80,000 vehicles daily, the bridge carried about 32,000 vehicles in its first 24 hours.”
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/4/18/the-brent-spence-boondoggle
How do you get a vessel into port with a pontoon bridge in place?
That is not a solution. The port access is more important than the bridge traffic.