Cost to rebuild Baltimore's Key Bridge, toppled by cargo ship last year, expected to double

Just The News ^ | November 18, 2025 | Natalia Mittelstadt

[lula]

So no money from the ship’s insurance? Always the taxpayers have to pay...

[Magnum44]

Standard govt construction time line is 20 years, so that is 2045. Twenty years is also the standard govt retirement program time line. Funny, that!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Up 2X from the initial estimate. Can they really come in at $4.3-5.2 B? Or will it double again like the Cal choo-choo?

[Organic Panic]

I bet it falls down a week after co pelt ion in 2045.

[digger48]

Of course

Anyone with a brain knew they low-balled the estimate

[BigFreakinToad]

Have to make sure those DEI contractors get there fair share.

[con-surf-ative]

Recent Harbor Bridge in South Texas. Construction started in 2017, scheduled completion for 2020. It just opened 3 months ago. I have no idea how much the cost overruns were.

Classic illustration of the oxymoron “government work”.

[algore]

“We still don’t know who was piloting the ship.”

no one was piloting the ship, it had no power.

Why it had no power is a whole nother question, and answers will never be made public

[for-q-clinton]

Got to pay for those no show union workers

[ryderann]

Just in line with the BIG Dig that was supposed to cost $2.5 billion, ended up to be $14.8 billion. That was more than four decades ago, and the damn thing even collapsed. Now there’s the years-behind-schedule CA High Speed Rail project with the original price tag of $33 billion expected to be $135 billion to complete.

[Segovia]

https://mdbizoppssummit.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/header2025.jpg

Everything you need to know.

[VTenigma]

It’s the payoffs and the ripoffs.

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There’s lots of shady characters, lots of dirty deals

[Vigilanteman]

“Preliminary cost and project time estimates were made less than two weeks after the initial crash and before any engineering or design studies were conducted,we had a chance to decide how many politician's palms had to be greased and for how much” Maryland Democrat Gov. Wes Moore said Monday.

There. Fixed it.

[Fireone]

Initial estimates were accurate.
They just forgot to add in the unions and politician’s “upcharges”.

[NorthMountain]

So no money from the ship’s insurance?

There are several layers of insurance on the ship and her cargo ... that will be tied up in litigation for years.

[NorthMountain]

It’s the lure of easy money ... it has a very strong appeal.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Yah, I’d say so.

[bray]

The Pelosi upcharges.

[dynachrome]

The refurbishment of Denver International airport is way over budget as the original contractor was fired halfway through. Who knows when it will be complete.

[alstewartfan]

Democrat run state. Thanks Commies!😬