[Real Cynic No More]

From the video, I see several issues of government irresponsibility:

1. It appears the pier/columns were not lighted.
2. There should have been pier protective cells on approaches from each direction, such as those shown protecting the high mast lights

[MeganC]

“2. There should have been pier protective cells on approaches from each direction, such as those shown protecting the high mast lights”

I saw this too.

The need for those protective structures could be eliminated if the replacement is a wide-span suspension bridge.

[Fireone]

Given the frail design of the bridge piers, there should have been pilot boats required, to get these behemoths safely beyond.
This was an accident waiting to happen.

[pierrem15]

The piers were far too close and inadequate in strength for the size of today’s container cargo ships. The Dali is >900 ft. long. I wonder what the tonnage is and what the piers were designed for.