[steve86]

Yeah, about "bolstering the piers which would have prevented the collapse", people don't realize that 100,000+ tons moving at 9 knots has momentum that bollards can't deal with, unless maybe you invest the same amount in the bolstering as in the bridge.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Back when the USS Missouri, half the weight of Dali, ran aground in 1950, she slid across 2500 feet of sand bar before coming to a halt. Inertia, per Newton, is the LAW and not easily thwarted.