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Silver lining if any hopefully this sees the current or next administration start to fix Americas infrastructure. Watched a thing about the rail network a while back and it’s falling apart and a miracle stuff like this doesn’t happen all the time with trains.
Ok yes to addressing infrastructure … but this incident, I’d argue, is not related at all. A huge ship crashed into a bridge.
And the design of that bridge wouldn’t see it built today as it wouldn’t be able to deal with such a collision. Mordern bridges would easily.
Ship couldn’t have been going at any speed at all. Just the sheer weight of it took it out.
Are you saying new bridges would stand up to that behemoth ramming into them? I find that hard to believe.
I am saying that yes. Build a lever bridge or build a bridge that flies over the entire river and doesn’t touch the water or need support in the soup at all. There’s thousands of examples of them all around the world
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Now there is reporting that the crew issued a mayday, and the bridge ended up being closed off. Unfortunately not in time for some of the cars on the bridge right when it was hit, but it helped keep more off of it in the moments that followed. I feel bad for the victims here but as someone said earlier, imagine if this was during rush hour.
I, too, think this was a mechanical operator error. Devil's advocate though -- a deliberate act could have targeted disruption instead of lives.
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Now there is reporting that the crew issued a mayday, and the bridge ended up being closed off. Unfortunately not in time for some of the cars on the bridge right when it was hit, but it helped keep more off of it in the moments that followed. I feel bad for the victims here but as someone said earlier, imagine if this was during rush hour.
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It really is crazy how it just completely collapsed like that.. why isn't there a protective barrier to protect it in case of such incidents? Who stands to benefit? Is there an insurance beneficiary?
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It really is crazy how it just completely collapsed like that.. why isn't there a protective barrier to protect it in case of such incidents? Who stands to benefit? Is there an insurance beneficiary?
There is a barrier I think but apparently it wasn't strong enough.
Looks like this was wrong. There doesn't appear to have been any vehicles on the bridge.
How about the people that died?
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The six men were working for Brawner Builders, filling potholes on the center span of the bridge, at the time of the collapse.
The men, who are now presumed dead, are from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico, and were living in Dundalk and Highlandtown, according to WJZ media partner The Baltimore Banner.
One of the missing workers from El Salvador was identified as Miguel Luna by the nonprofit organization CASA.
"He is a husband, a father of three, and has called Maryland his home for over 19 years," CASA executive director Gustavo Torres said in a statement Tuesday night, noting Luna was a "longtime member of the CASA family."
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Rob wrote:
So I guess they had time to close a major bridge, but not evacuate the guys working on potholes? Or did they just forget about them?
From what I've read, they didn't have a direct line to communicate with them. One of the cops stopping traffic was about to drive out and get them when the bridge collapsed.
The call came in 4 minutes before the impact, so driving out a half mile getting workers and driving back by the time cops were on the scene was probably impossible.
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i think big picture to prevent is use tugboats
they werent
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