Early this morning a container shit crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, resulting in its collapse.

 

 

The Francis Scott Key Bridge is part of the I-95 beltway around Baltimore.

It is the shorter of the beltway, and us about 40% of truck traffic through I-95 around the city.

In addition, the wreckage blocks the port of Baltimore.

I’m not implying any foul play. The reports I’ve heard is a steer-by-wire ship lost power and it a support column.

The engineer in me knows that if a support column in a bridge is taken out, the bridge is gone.

This seems to be a horrific accident.

Nevertheless, this is going to be a major economic problem for the country for months to come.

 

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By J. Kb

9 thoughts on “The fuckening continues with the Francis Scott Key Bridge”
  1. im assuming a chinese ship? coinky-doink we think?? note to self- buy more tinfoil today…
    not good to have happened, time will tell

    1. According to everything I’ve been able to dig up, the ship is Singapore-flagged and owned by Singaporean shipping group, and currently being leased to/chartered by Maersk.

  2. I’d be (pleasantly) surprised if the bridge is returned to service in only a few months. The regulatory/compliance burden, and just paperwork in general, these days is incredible compared to 1977 when the bridge was first built. (Not that there was no paperwork then, of course.)

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    1. It’ll be months before they clear the wreckage. It will be YEARS before there’s a bridge there again.

  3. And, I have zero doubt in my mind that this current administration will use this as a call to spend even more on “infrastructure” at an even higher price tag, and a deeper debt.

  4. Accidents happen. It’s hardly the first bridge strike — I can think of three. Occam’s Razor applies.

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