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BREAKING DETAILS FROM ANNAPOLIS. 11 NEWS INVESTIGATES HAS LEARNED A RISK ASSESSMENT IS UNDERWAY FOR THE CHESAPEAKE BAY BRIDGE. OUR EFFORTS TO CONFIRM THAT INCLUDED FILING A PUBLIC INFORMATION ACT ...
It’s too late for the Francis Scott Key Bridge, but not for its longer and more heavily trafficked sibling span over the Chesapeake Bay. The National Transportation Safety Board criticized ...
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 ...
And out of all the Bay Area bridges in the report, the Golden Gate Bridge, which was built in 1937, is the oldest. The many bridges named in the report aren’t necessarily in danger ...
Maryland failed to assess the Francis Scott Key Bridge for its vulnerability from a vessel collision and still has yet to assess the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, the National Transportation Safety Board ...
The same assessment has not been conducted on 68 other bridges across the country, including Maryland's Bay Bridge. "We conclude in our report that had the MDTA conducted a vulnerability ...
The Maryland Transportation Authority entered into a $600,000 contract in April 2024 with a company to conduct a vulnerability study on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, 11 News Investigates has learned.
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 ...
In the D.C. area, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge made the list, with Shields’ team suggesting a significant collision could occur there once every 86 years. That makes it less vulnerable than those ...