Baltimore Bridge Collapse

[matt3916]

After reading the article about opening the channel, I got curious about a related problem that I haven't seen anything about (well, haven't looked for, really).  So I'll be lazy and depend on you folks to point me in the right direction.

What about replacing the bridge?  And what traffic problems is its loss causing in and about Baltimore?  I don't even know where the bridge went to and from.  What happened to my daily commute if I regularly used the bridge?

I'm much more interested in the answers to those questions rather than "how are we going to help those poor shipping companies?"

[Gusington]

There is the harbor tunnel which I always used to get through that area instead of the bridge when visiting family further down in MD. It must be handling the majority of the traffic but it must still be...unpleasant.

[Redwolf]

Yeah, from the communications it seems they don't worry about road vehicles at all. We all work from home now, right?

[steve58]

Another cargo ship loses power, this time near the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/another-massive-cargo-ship-loses-control-while-leaving-an-american-harbor

[Uberhaus]

Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence.

It's fortunate that there were extra tugs available to bring the cargo ship under control.  I would imagine that all ports are standing up extra resources for the transit of such massive vessels.

[Gusington]

The Verrazano, fortunately, is very different from the bridge in Baltimore in how it is constructed.

[GDS_Starfury]

from my reading of the subject matter, most harbors keep tugs on the big ships as  routine because their power losses are more common then we would expect.

[Tripoli]

from my reading of the subject matter, most harbors keep tugs on the big ships as  routine because there power losses are more common then we would expect.

In my experience, power losses on ships occur "not infrequently".  I was on the USS BLUE RIDGE (LCC-19) when it was without power for about 12 hours in the middle of the Pacific. I"ve seen rudder failures and "dropping the load" for much shorter occasions several times on other ships

[GDS_Starfury]

the main channel has been cleared and ships are moving out!