Video: Baltimore bridge struck by boat and collapses

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Woof... Found a map of the area, and yeah, you can route around the collapse, but the next closest crossing is a ways away...

Oof.... the traffic is gonna be hellish there for the foreseeable future.

Now imagine shipping traffic! Lots of deliveries not happening this week!

Dundalk and Sparrow's Point is basically all distribution centers now.

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And the tunnels (I-895 and I-95) forbid things like propane, so if you have some of that, you're off to the west side of the Baltimore Beltway, which is already extremely busy. Good luck with that!

(Relatively local person here who travels around Baltimore frequently. I've used the bridge that collapsed on several occasions to avoid the tunnels while carrying propane.)

Except if you’re carrying HAZMATS it’s even worse, they’re not allowed in either of the tunnel crossings, so all that traffic has to reroute aaaaaaall the way off your map via the western half of 695.

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