The news says the ship lost propulsion. Wouldn’t it be a good idea to shut the bridge down if there’s a massive ship adrift nearby? Or maybe it happened too quickly to react accordingly in which case it seems like a terrible system in which a boat having trouble could destroy the bridge so rapidly. Either way USA repeatedly shows how inept it is at every level: city, state, fed.
I'd imagine it was likely a communications issue, hindsight is 20/20. Very tragic though, I live only about 15 miles away from the Key Bridge.
This is probably correct
Did you miss the part where the ship directly rammed a support column at 1am
Right. Because the ship lost propulsion according to then news. So it was adrift without a way to control it.
Exactly. So how do you stop a thousand ton ship that's out of control
Maybe the person whose job it was to close the bridge was taking a union mandated brake
Watch the video, you can see where all the lights on the ship go off, is that the same time it lost propulsion? 30 seconds before impact
That’s definitely not a lot of time to react but it’s also crazy that some kind of failure on the ship gives authorities only seconds to start preparing for disaster. Seems like a bad system.
Let’s pretend that’s what happened, what’s your proposal for a system?
Liberals will blame Trump or Climate Change for this
Conservatives will blame any minority they can find within 100 miles of this incident.
Cringe response
The ship left the port thirty minutes before it hit the bridge. Even if it issues started happening 10 minutes in, do you think 20 minutes is enough time to shut down a 8600 foot bridge?
Yeah I do. Just require police to stop traffic at either side
Indian news channels reporting that entire crew on the ship was Indian. Is that true?
Doesn't matter much, this on the pilot
I don’t think it matters. I read that port employees actually board the ship and navigate it in and out of the port
Maryland's governor says the ship's mayday call enabled officials to limit traffic on Baltimore's Key Bridge before the crash that caused the collapse. https://apnews.com/live/baltimore-key-bridge-collapse-latest-2024 Gov. Wes Moore said he was thankful that after the cargo ship’s distress call, authorities were able to stop cars from going over the bridge.
Thanks for the update. That’s good they were able to close the bridge but not soon enough. Which goes to my second point of how was this was such a fast chain of events
Rescuers are searching for six construction workers who were working on the bridge at the time of the collapse. That's just sad .. they may have shut down the bridge for traffic but they still had people working on the bridge
It’s a blue city, probably more worried about calling people by the correct pronouns over public safety.
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