Baltimore bridge fucked

[idunnosomename]

Needed a good guy with a bigger boat

[Buelligan]

That's jumped the shark.

[Psybro]

You don't drive a ship, you're thinking of cars. buzby seems to think that the boat was being controlled by a pilot, but he's got confused with planes. Maybe that's the problem here, and the wrong sorts of professionals were in charge of things rather than the ship being filled with seamen.

Sorry, the ship was being ridden by cops.

[touchingcloth]

You ROW a ship, you absolute bunch of berks.

[shiftwork2]

S2 of The Wire was the best and this proves it.  In particular the great performance by Steve Doors.

[Dex Sawash]

Seems suspicious we haven't heard from @newbridge

[steve98]

Beautiful vehicular bridge of the Baltimore bay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say...

[Uncle TechTip]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83a7h3kkgPg

livestream of fucked bridge

What's the point of that, the bridge has already collapsed.

[kngen]

Beautiful vehicular bridge of the Baltimore bay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say...

Braw!

[idunnosomename]

What's the point of that, the bridge has already collapsed.

you can watch them fix it

[Buelligan]

Livestreams are weird like that.  Magically, you can also turn back time, to a better time when a bridge, for instance, was just sitting there, happy and free.  Minding its own bizzy.  Before the world famous "Baltimore" PeeDee attacked it.

[BlodwynPig]

* Dex Sawash marked safe from absolutely fucked bridge

Any news on Dan Bell?

[buzby]

Pleased to see it's already on Wikipedia's List of bridge failures, alongside the 2023 Interstate 95 highway collapse in Philadelphia where a tanker caught fire after a crash, damaging an overpass and killing 1; and such notable events as the 2022 Morbi bridge collapse in India (135+ dead); and I'm sure we all remember the Ponte Morande in Genoa, 43 dead in 2018.

It's not too common for ships to cause serious damage to bridges, although sometimes a ship will try and go the wrong way with calamitous results. There was the Ulyanovsk railway bridge disaster in 1988 where a Russian cruise ship went through the wrong span for unclear reasons, causing 176 deaths, but the ship was OK. And a freighter hit the Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Australia in 1977, with 5 deaths - it was foggy and the ship's master allegedly not paying attention. The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway near New Orleans was hit in 1966 with 6 deaths and a bus fell in the lake.

Most relevant to the current collision is the 1993 Big Bayou Canot collision, where a tug towing barges at night in fog with no compass, charts and an inexperienced captain who wasn't trained to use the radar got lost on the Mobile River, went up the wrong fork and knocked a railway bridge out of alignment. An Amtrak express train came along 40 minutes later and went into the river, killing 47 passengers and crew and injuring 103 .

There have been several other bridge collapses in the US this century; highway infrastructure is aging and in desperate need of massive repairs, as engineers will tell you constantly, although it's allegedly getting a bit better.

In 2022 the Fern Hollow road bridge in Pittsburgh collapsed as a bus drove over it due to the legs rusting through. Inspections as far back as 2014 had highligted excessive corrosion, and in 2017 a 1ft square hole had formed in one of the legs but nothing was done.


 
Last month, again in Pittsburg, the Charles Anderson Memorial Bridge was closed due to excessive corrosion.

In December, the Washington Bridge that carries I-195 to Rhode Island had one side closed permanently after someone on a boat noticed the end of the centre span bouncing as traffic went over it, and a subsequent insopection shoed the anchor rods in the concrete that were supposed to tie it down had fractured. Successive inspections had warned that the rods were being corroded and were likely to fracture due to the reduction of the cross section.

[Memorex MP3]

Yeah I'm not sure if it's mainly a US thing but politicians don't seem to want to repair or reinforce existing infrastructure. Much better to build something new for a photo opportunity and let what's already there crumble.

It's just society in general. Every single office based job I've had has been fixated on making new pointless bullshit instead of just making the core product actually function okay. Literally the only way you can actually fully resolve key issues seems to be to let them hit a crisis point.

[Blumf]

What's the point of that, the bridge has already collapsed.

There's a load of ships trapped behind the bridge, so there's a non-zero chance that one of them may try to jump it. You don't want to miss that!

[poo]

Boaty done a bridgedozy

[Zero Gravitas]

Waiting impatiently for the Wikipedia article to have enough images to fill a 3 hour podcast with slides.

[Ferris]

The SS Sobotka's Revenge.

[imitationleather]

I absolutely hate bridges. When I walk on them I get all dizzy and start breathing fast and need to have a lie down, which is obviously extremely embarrassing because as a big burly man I don't like my manhood being shown up for the sham it is.

So this is the best news story of the century for me.

[Zero Gravitas]

Alas, it was a dark and sorrowful morn,
When Baltimore's bridge was tragically torn.
Struck by a ship, so large and so bold,
The Francis Scott Key Bridge into the waters did roll'd.

Oh, the horror and the chaos, on that fateful day,
As the buttresses beneath the travellers had given way.
A beacon of connection, now broken and lost,
A reminder of the dangers, when into water one's toss'd.

[Captain Z]

Gazza has turned up with a fishing trawler and container of sex arses.

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

Captain was pissed up.

[McDead]

Shame about that bridge though

[Uncle TechTip]

Please, a man died, probably.

[Psybro]

Waiting impatiently for the Wikipedia article to have enough images to fill a 3 hour podcast with slides.

First thing in my head when I saw the news this morning was Justin's voice saying "The road is in the river, it's not supposed to be there."

[touchingcloth]

Why are we talking about this bridge when Gaza?

[sprocket]

The SS Sobotka's Revenge.

If only they'd dredged the canal instead of the grain pier.

[imitationleather]

Don't cry. That bridge is up there with Captain Tom, Diana, Harambe, Teletext, Dennis Nilsen and the crooked pub now.

[Buelligan]

Why are we talking about this bridge when Gaza?

Because of the current Palestinian/US positions on the International Death Exchange Market.

[El Unicornio, mang]

Why are we talking about this bridge when Gaza?

Already mentioned by Captain Z a few posts up!