Oh there are plenty of other bridges, tunnels, bridge-tunnels and ferries if need be for folks to traverse these rivers and lakes and bays on the eastern shore.
I drove the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel for 8 years and this Francis Scott Key Bridge for my last 7 years at Western Electric...now the CIA.
:essee///there was mighty Bethlehem Steel, a Chevrolet plant-or maybe Ford...getting old...western electric...subsidiary of AT&T....all kinds of industry used either a bridge or a tunnel to get from west to east and such.
But Lord it will be a mess.
And also....what with all these bridges and tunnels all about, should we do something about them? Maybe re-inspect them, give them another lookover.
But hey, we have Buttigieg so I worry not.
Those bridges are supposed to be inspected regularly. In this instance, I don't think any bridge would have survive being rammed by a tanker that size.
I remember when the NY State Thruway bridge over Schoharie creek collapsed in 1987, killing 10 people. It's just a road bridge over the creek. It happened after a heavy rainfall which caused flooding and a heavier flow. Mario Cuomo was Governor at the time. Apparently there hadn't been regular inspections of that bridge, because it was discovered during the investigation, that gradual erosion around one of the plinths that held the bridge up had weakened it, and it collapsed from the force of the rushing water, and took the rest of the bridge with it. It was also discovered that when the bridge was originally built, steel sheet piling wasn't used, and would have prevented the collapse. The bridge was built in 1953 when Thomas E. Dewey was Governor.