Baltimore bridge collapses into river after being hit by cargo ship
A portion of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a large boat collided with it early on Tuesday morning, sending multiple vehicles into the water.
At about 1.30am, a vessel crashed into the bridge, catching fire before sinking and causing multiple vehicles to fall into the water below, according to a video posted on X.
“All lanes closed both directions for incident on I-695 Key Bridge. Traffic is being detoured,” the Maryland Transportation Authority posted on X.
Matthew West, a petty officer first class for the coastguard in Baltimore, told the New York Times that the coastguard received a report of an impact at 1.27am ET. West said the Dali, a 948ft (29 metres) Singapore-flagged cargo ship, had hit the bridge, which is part of Interstate 695.
Time for a redundant array of inexpensive bridges?
(computer joke about backups and resilience.)
Or on a more serious note, maybe a tunnel?
So which version of RAIB you thinking? Because obviously, this has to be hardware, can't do this with software. IMO, RAIB-5 is probably overkill but I think the locals would appreciate it.
I'm thinking RAIB-0. Not one problem there. No problems at all.
Just a Bunch Of Bridge.
I was thinking RAIB 10 . .no need for parity checking.
What sort of cabling, do you suppose?
Strong Cable Support Infrastructure?
RAIB-0 would be interesting enough. Each car split into equal parts across multiple bridges.
They also have a tunnel and other Bridges
There are two tunnels, plus you could go the long way around or on local streets. However there’s a lot of traffic, plus the tunnels have restrictions against hazardous or oversized loads
What kind of RAIB array would you suggest?
The Beowulf Bridge.
Looks like most crossing upstream are tunnels.
They are, with restrictions for hazmat, propane, and similar materials, so another tunnel with the same restrictions would be a major headache.