[Red Badger]

My only question is why were there not any fenders or deflectors on the bridge supports?..............

[Magnum44]

[AnAmericanMother]

Any bridge support in a shipping channel should have sturdy, tapered revetments around its base. Aside from ships, it also deflects logs and other debris in flood time.

These are pretty standard and I have no idea why they weren't put in on piers in a channel! (used to work for a highway/bridge contractor way back in the day).

[riverrunner]

Well money is the first answer.

Some time in the past someone or a committee. Made that decision. Not to spend the money to due so.

[lightman]

Maryland decided in its infinite wisdom that bumpers were too expensive.

[9422WMR]

“My only question is why were there not any fenders or deflectors on the bridge supports?..............”
Ding Ding Ding we have a winner!!
If you look at an aerial view of the harbor with the bridge, you can see a power line runs parallel to the bridge on the port side. Surrounding the towers that support the power line?
Fenders or concrete deflectors that prevent the power pole from being knocked down by an errant ship.
Why were none installed on the bridge supports? That bridge has been there for almost 50 years.

[ronnie raygun]

That bridge went down to fast and to complete if you ask me. Love when rats demand full investigation until the truth comes out and it isn’t in their narrative