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NYC area bridges could be vulnerable to Baltimore-like ship strikes, feds say
Local transportation agencies say the risks are low due to the usual container vessel routes as well as natural and manmade ...
Fatal boat strikes — which took life of beloved whale this year — on the rise in NYC area and killing more sea mammals
Marine life is flooding New York City’s waterways once again — but the conservation win is having an unfortunate side effect.
NTSB urges look at collapse risk for bridges, including in NYC
The Verrazano Narrows, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg, George Washington and Outerbridge Crossing bridges were among those ...
Trains13d
Four rail bridges on list of those needing assessment of collapse risk in ship collision
Some of the nation’s most famous bridges, including four that carry rail or rail transit traffic, are on a list of 68 the ...
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Major NYC bridges among 68 recommended for assessments following Baltimore bridge collapse: NTSB
Nearly a year since the catastrophic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after a container ship struck one of its piers, the National Transportation Safety Board is recommending that the owners ...
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Louisiana bridges need assessment after Baltimore collapse, federal study finds
The Crescent City Connection in New Orleans, the Sunshine Bridge in Donaldsonville and the Mississippi River Bridge in Baton ... assessment based on recent ship traffic and "therefore have an ...
It’s no metaphor — undersea cables hold together our precarious modern life
The Elon Musks of the world might want us to believe that Starlink is the true wave of the future, but we will be using ...
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Span of disaster: US bridges face deadly risk of ship ramming, study finds
Many large bridges, Shields said, were built more than 50 years ago, when ship traffic was one third or ... the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in Staten Island, New York, for which the assessment ...