It's perfectly structurally possible. A design closer to this (obviously it would be elevated for ships to pass under) doesn't have the entire thing connected. Notice the upper support structure is segmented at each support beam.
Or rethink bringing these monsters up rivers and into ports.
Perhaps we need to be building "floating" platform type of facilities to unload the mega container ships onto smaller container ships and then have THOSE be the ones that come upriver and into port. Let the big massive ones stay in bays or nearshore - run smaller vessels back and forth between port and transfer type stations.
They sit out there in lines anyway waiting for pilots to bring them to port
(It looks like a parade in the DE Bay on any given day as they just sit in Que to be brought into port of Philadelphia)
Like I said, I'm not an engineer so I don't know why engineers choose one version of a bridge over another. I won't even pretend that I do understand, I'm not that good at the underlying math, etc.
Someone is ALWAYS going to bitch about costs. I'm seeing people TODAY complaining because Biden committed to Federal assistance in getting the Port of Baltimore open and the bridge rebuilt. I'm not personally opposed to it, but let's face it - money talks in the US and we don't do ANYTHING regardless of costs. (Except maybe military related)
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Trump and the Freedom Caucus changed the standard.
From the interviews I have seen at the Orange Jesus rallies there are a fair amount with really low intelligence and some that really are just plain whacked.
Hasn't he also shown many people that they can well and truly **** themselves by doing those things? Fox News lawsuit, Tucker fired, Eastman ridiculed and maybe getting disbarred, lots of folks indicted as co-conspirators in the Georgia trial, Mike Lindell tanking his personal fortune, Alex Jones getting sued by Sandy Hook parents, Giuliani getting sued and going broke - the list is long and growing.
74 million 2020 election voters, magically "off the hook," despite voting for a candidate who was literally killing them.
"Rotted out infrastructure"? A 46 year old, 95,000 ton vessel loaded with 48,000 steel boxes, traveling at 9 mph suddenly loses power and steering controls and veers into one of two main bridge support foundations, stopping it abruptly. The abruptly ended velocity of such a heavy object had to go somewhere, literally shaking the support and the bridge mounted on it. So far, neither design. construction, or condition of the bridge is a known issue, versus the malfunctioning vessel definitely an issue.
To the maga faithful those other criminals you mention are patriots getting mercilessly beaten up by Dem lawfare. They know that is true because that is what Trump told them.
Okay, so say we fixed the pylon.
March 27, 2024I will!
And talking to my husband who prior to switching into fishing as a career, was in construction as a member of the carpenters union and built bridges, skyscrapers, etc same as my FIL. (Up until a steel worker dropped a beam on him when he decided if he was going to die at work, it was going to be doing something he loved
We were just looking at the FSK bridge and he can see exactly why it came down the way it did.
One of his friends is running the job to put the bumpers at the Delaware Memorial Bridge in fact that he knows from back in his union days.
This has been a hot topic in our house since it happened
