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My hot take is this shouldn’t be possible to occur as an accident during normal operations. Either the bridge is dilapidated or poorly designed, or ships that large should not be allowed under it.
Shit like this will occur with increasing frequency in America, and it will be normalized as an unavoidable, just like mass shootings.
No bridge is going to be designed to take a direct hit from a container ship. This is a multi level failure of the ship and the tugs.
I would think that bridges should have redundancy such that taking out a single support doesn’t cause total failure. Idk I’m not an entomologist
Most bridges have safety precautions to avoid a head on collision however.
Maybe America shouldnt be so reliant on its waterways to transport treats?
???? you're treatposting in response to a container ship hitting a bridge & causing its collapse. world's best communist
I’ll alienate myself from any working class in the pursuit of communism
Oh ok I didn’t realize you were gonna solo communism, now it makes sense
La Forge, report to sick bay and then the holodeck for a mandatory time-out
Bruh, did someone switch out your theory reading list for iseksai web novels or some shit? What world are you on?
looks like we've got the Big Communism Builder Himself right here. bask in His glory, He will awash the masses in communism and they will give thanks to Him
This is the kind of take that people point to when they say, "America bad is no substitute for an actual analysis"
Apart from treat discourse being a weird response to this, waterways are the most efficient way to move treats massive distances, so this doesn't even make sense.
why not?
The bridge was opened in 1977. I believe loaded cargo ships have gotten much more massive since then. Does that mean the bridge could withstand getting hit by a standard 70s cargo ship? I don’t know. That doesn’t invalidate the point that a cargo ship that size should be crossing it - but these massive container ships are what drive global capitalism. No surprise that they would disregard safety for profit here.