BUILD CHANNELS UNDER THESE BRIDGES!!! By digging out channels beneath BRIDGES that have large cargo ship traffic beneath them, these ships would run around, and/or hit a wall (depending on design) before ever getting close to bridges structural support components.
Every city with bridges like these, with city, state AND federal funding, should begin construction on "guidance channels " IMMEDIATELY...
Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses
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Re: Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses
#383BUILD CHANNELS UNDER THESE BRIDGES!!! By digging out channels beneath BRIDGES that have large cargo ship traffic beneath them, these ships would run around, and/or hit a wall (depending on design) before ever getting close to bridges structural support components. Every city with bridges like these, with city, state AND federal funding, should begin construction on "guidance channels " IMMEDIATELY...
You good dude?
Re: Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses
#384I had a hunch this was the bridge featured in The Wire s2e1, "Ebb Tide". Classic McNulty; a great season opener. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebb_Tide_(The_Wire)
Season 2 of The Wire is the single greatest work of television I've ever seen. It's as rich as a novel, as tragic as something out of Shakespeare. Seriously. If anyone hasn't seen The Wire, do yourself a favor and give it a watch.
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#385A lot of these ships are controlled via GPS to keep them in the channels. I wonder if this crash will entail a software bug or system failure.
This ship was under pilotage at the time.
In the same way that airline captains don't sleep during takeoff or landing, the captain is in the bridge (and with the assistance of a harbor-specific pilot) for the entirety of maneuvering in and out of a harbor.
Re: Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses
#386Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree. I lived in PG county for years and this is a big deal The 295 bridge collapse a decade ago was similarly shocking U.S. infrastructure is beyond crisis level.
I'm not sure if I would expect any bridge to survive being struck by an enormous container ship.
Older bridges no, but newer bridges should absolutely. The Bay Bridge was struck in 2007 and came away mostly unscathed due to earlier efforts to prevent catastrophic damage in that scenario;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosco_Busan_oil_spill
Though the Maryland accident looks like it struck it dead on - just a massive amount of energy to absorb.
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#387Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because bridges over harbors are quite common an incidents like this are rare.
All roads should be underground! What if a plane crashes into a surface road? Or a meteor? Somebody think of the children!
After making all roads underground: "Tunnel collapses are killing all our children! Let's make all roads above ground!"
Re: Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses
#388Every bridge with large cargo ship traffic beneath them should have channels designed to guide the commercial traffic, installed beneath them.
Every city with bridges like these should, with state AND federal funding, should begin the process of constructing such "guidance channels" beneath these bridges IMMEDIATELY!!!
It should be IMPOSSIBLE for Ships large enough to damage bridges to even be able to come into contact with these bridges.
The idea that the ship itself has 100% control as to whether it strikes a bridge or not, IS INSANE.
Re: Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses
#389Somehow I find it surprising how completely the bridge collapsed after the damage. I understand that a container ship collision is serious, but you could imagine a scenarios where the bridge slumps or buckles but doesn’t just disintegrate like that. It’s surprising that ships capable of doing this damage were probably regularly driving past it, and its safety as a thoroughfare depended entirely on those collisions no…
The ongoing construction work likely creaty some type of structural integrity issue...
Re: Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses
#390Every bridge with large cargo ship traffic beneath them should have channels designed to guide the commercial traffic, installed beneath them. Every city with bridges like these should, with state AND federal funding, should begin the process of constructing such "guidance channels" beneath these bridges IMMEDIATELY!!! It should be IMPOSSIBLE for Ships large enough to damage bridges to even be able to come into conta…
The problem is momentum. These ships weigh thousands of tons so something as simple as coming to a stop is difficult. The ship probably knew it would collide with the bridge well in advance but had no way stop of avert the ship due to it's sheer size.