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Originally Posted by jbermingham123
Also, seems like the bridge supports shouldve been a bit tougher than that?
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I read somewhere else that it collapsed so easily, like a toy bridge made of toothpicks, because it was a cantilevered bridge. Those bridge styles have now gone out of use because they are too fragile.
Some have pointed out that it may be time for dolphins (islands of stone surrounding bridge piers) to be mandatory as much as possible. This incident is similar to the collapse of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, which collapsed in 1980 when a ship hit the bridge pier.
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Originally Posted by homebucket
Looks like the Key Bridge was a designated hazardous materials truck route, as HAZMATs are prohibited in the Baltimore Harbor and Fort McHenry tunnels, so the detours are going to be quite long.
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I imagine the detour for through traffic will be the other half of the Baltimore Beltway, since it is a complete land route. So it may not be quite too long. But the problem is that the other half of the beltway is where most people live, so traffic will be a pain. It is also a big detour for the port trucks going from one side of the Patapsco River to the other with those shipping sites lining it.