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Posted on 11/18/2025 7:52:22 AM PST by Red Badger
The rebuilding cost of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge has more than doubled, and has a new expected opening of late 2030.
The Key Bridge, which collapsed in March 2024 after being hit by a cargo ship, is now projected to cost $4.3 billion to $5.2 billion to rebuild, up from the previous cost estimate of $1.7 billion to $1.9 billion, CNN reported. The bridge was also originally expected to be completed by 2028.
“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,” Maryland Democrat Gov. Wes Moore said Monday.
“Since then, national economic conditions have deteriorated and material costs have increased. At the same time, elevated costs have resulted from federal design and resilience standards – not discretionary state choices.”
As many as 35,000 vehicles a day traveled across the bridge before the ship ran into one of its pillars, resulting in the death of six people.
Maryland's acting Transportation Secretary and Maryland Transportation Authority Chairwoman Samantha J. Biddle gave a similar explanation about the higher costs and projected completion date.
“The updated cost range and schedule are directly correlated to increased material costs and to a robust pier protection system designed to protect the new Key Bridge and reduce the likelihood of a future ship strike to the bridge’s foundational piers.”
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Ah, Baltimore politics
It’s a government operation....
It’s the payoffs and the ripoffs ...
fraud and corruption and kickbacks and bribes and unions skimming the contract and politicians getting their cut ...
that’s why the schedule is “extended” ... the long time allows more money laundering.
Fixed.
They misspelled triple.
I bet this bridge never gets built before 2036.........
We still don’t know who was piloting the ship.
100% government corruption, kickbacks for everyone.
Well, this is a surprise. Who could ever have seen such a thing coming?
If all it does is double, that will be a miracle. Expect it to triple or quadruple once these corrupt incompetents are done.
Just like Boston’s “Big Dig”
Nobody.................
I’m sure all Union jobs....
“ I bet this bridge never gets built before 2036.........”
Like newsom’s high speed rail
Correct.
This project is like a pile of crap and the grifters are 1000 flies................
that bridge is worth ten times as much. We have to make it easier for all those rappers to get to the liquor store
Guaranteed..............
Graft costs money.
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