In the early planning stages of demolition in 2018, Wappel said that IDOT and contractors had discussions about explosions, saying that the dismantling of a truss bridge would require the need to ...

Baltimore's iconic Francis Scott Key Bridge was hit by a ship and collapsed one year ago. Since then, state and federal ...

For LaPin, the bridge symbolized cherished afternoons spent with his grandfather. Perhaps for that reason, he has struggled to get used to a Baltimore skyline without the steel truss bridge.

It’s going to look different from the old one. “The old Key Bridge was truss, a kind of design that looks like, kind of a cage, and that is holding up the roadway,” said Rick Geddes ...

Now what's behind me here in Baltimore really is what sparked the question about the quality of bridges in the United States. Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of the Francis Scott Key Bridge ...

AHEAD. BRITTANY. THAT’S CORRECT. THERE ARE PLENTY OF ROADBLOCKS TO KEEPING DRIVERS HERE SAFE, INCLUDING THE AGE OF MANY OF OUR BRIDGES AND HOW MANY OF THEM ARE IN POOR CONDITION. AND WHEN YOU ...

More than half of the bridges in the United States are now rated as "fair" in the 2024 National Bridge Inventory database. Before 2013, the majority of the more than 473,440 bridges in the ...

There's *** cargo ship weighing 95,000 tons striking the Francis Scott Key Bridge last year, taking the lives of six people. It's shocking. Um, and heartbreaking. The Key Bridge was 47 years old.

Ships are highly likely to collide with major bridges across the United States, with potentially catastrophic collisions happening every few years, according to preliminary findings of an urgent ...

A year after Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after being struck by an errant cargo ship, a new study indicates such incidents are more likely to occur in the U.S. than commonly ...

Well, I'm gonna try to give you as short *** version as I can. What he does is crucial. The bridge engineer gets to call the shots, so that was kind of nice. He creates something that takes you to ...