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Bay City's Vets Bridge sees an uptick in traffic, no near-term maintenance planned
Bay City continues to navigate having only one non-toll bridge open over the Saginaw River.  ABC12 got an update on the ...
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Ships are ‘highly likely’ to collide with U.S. bridges, Hopkins research finds
America’s bridges are in danger. From one spanning the San Francisco Bay to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge here in Maryland, structures are much more prone to ship strikes than previously thought, Johns ...
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NTSB recommends safety assessment for Green Bay’s Leo Frigo Bridge amid national review
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — Nearly one year ago, the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed after a ship struck it, killing six construction workers. As part of its ongoing investigation into ...
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NTSB recommends vulnerability assessments on 68 bridges following Key Bridge collapse
In addition to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Maryland, they include iconic landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in California, the Brooklyn Bridge in New York and the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan.
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Golden Gate Bridge, other Bay Area spans at unknown risk of collapse from vessel collision, NTSB report says
A new report compiled after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore shows that San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and four other Bay Area spans may be vulnerable to collapse from a ship ...
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Key Bridge investigation: Maryland could have assessed risks, prevented collapse, NTSB says
It also had not conducted a similar study of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, leaving it at as one of dozens that the NTSB has identified as still having an “unknown level of risk” if struck by a ...
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Feds Say Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Bridge Is Urgently In Need Of Inspection
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge made the list, prompting the Maryland Department of Transportation to craft a quick response. In 1991, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation ...
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Maryland officials failed to assess vulnerability of Francis Scott Key Bridge before collapse, NTSB says
As of October, the Maryland Transportation Authority has also failed to conduct the assessment on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Homendy added. The Maryland Transportation Authority said in a ...
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Maryland officials should have known Key Bridge was vulnerable: NTSB
As of last October, Maryland authorities had also not done a risk assessment for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Homendy said, a four-mile long set of parallel bridges crossing the estuary. The ...
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NTSB: Key Bridge had 30 times greater risk of collapse, based on safety threshold
Homendy also pointed out that the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, which connects Maryland's Eastern Shore with Anne Arundel County, has never had a vulnerability assessment completed by MDTA, as of October ...
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NTSB slams MDTA and urges assessment of Chesapeake Bay Bridge: ‘We need action’
The Francis Scott Key Bridge was 30 times more susceptible to ship strikes than it should have been, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday, and the risk of a similar disaster at the ...
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Bay City’s Independence Bridge will be closed during the day all next week
BAY CITY, MI – The Independence Bridge will have daytime closures all next week, although neither the city nor the company leasing the bridges have said why. The bridge, which has been closed ...