If a suspension bridge loses a tower, then what do you think happens to the cables?
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Ideally they'll build a better bridge, but that will still take a lot of time and money. I can't imagine them just washing their hands of a route that long and important.
The ship took out the entire fucking pier, you will at minimum lose the two adjacent spans. The reason the chink crash only lost one span was 1) the pier did not completely collapse and was still supporting the approach span. 2) The end span of the main unit simply broke off, which is what happened with the center span on the Key bridge, but then the end pier failure happened. The type of bridge is irrelevant for both cases.But of course it's irrelevant now that you've been proven wrong.
The weight and speed of the ship are a moot point. Any bridge would have sustained heavy damage and had its bits collapse. But only a truss bridge would collapse in its entirety, which is what that section was.
Wrong. That's exactly why the whole thing collapsed. Had it been a beam bridge, you'd see the damage similar to that chink crash mentioned earlier in the thread.
Hope you're right, but it's Baltimore and the money they dump toward building a new one will get stolen and they'll slap up some piece of shit that will take 20 years to maybe complete.
Total Journalist Death
"for some reason"
How old was this bridge again? Was it already overdue for replacement due to structural fatigue?
Credit to the last one, she pushed the Governor asking him how they know vehicles were stopped because they were told sonar is picking up vehicles at the bottom of the river. He got visibly annoyed, called the bridge stop heroic, then they cut off questions.
My money is on a white woman, niggas know how to drive
He also told a reporter that the bridge was "up to code". Whether that's true, only time will tell.
Yeah Einstein, I'm sure any other type of bridge would've been a-okay if it got rammed by an object the size of a fucking building.
