It is my understand that the little rerouting requires a 45 minutes additional travel. They may not be much for a truck that crosses the state or nation, but it’s going to be brutal on the locals. Especially when that 45 minutes will be over an hour with the additional traffic.
Truckers are about to get their overdue pay and respect.
You’re right. There are other routes for everything. The main impact is going to be on us locals. There are three other reasonable routes through Baltimore. But only one of them can handle Hazmat. So all three will have to handle the additional traffic, which will cost commuters a lot of time. And the folks who used the FSK Bridge for commuting will be in a world of hurt.
But once the channel is clear the port will reopen and it will be pretty much business as usual, with some extra driving time for truckers.
The port will be open for vessels before you know it. And they will think of additional mitigation to get the traffic moving. Patience!! We will survive.