A major exaggeration. The same trucks can go around Baltimore to the west on the beltway, and the port will reopen in May. Economic fear porn seems to be popular, but that doesn’t make it true.
True. I can’t begin to count the major detours in and around major cities (and DOT scales, lol!) I had to make while trucking. Transportation will adapt. Quickly.
They will likely have the shipping channel open sooner than we are told in order to make the poster boy of ‘Didn’t Earn It’ transportation sec look like a genious.
If FR issued fear porn merit badges some freepers would have as many ribbons as a banana republic general.
Yes, HAZMATs are prohibited from both the older Harbor Tunnel (1957) and the newer Fort McHenry Tunnel (1985). But the alternate route is to go the long way around the Baltimore Beltway which is how it worked before the Francis Scott Key bridge was completed in 1977. A longer route, yes, but not insurmountable.
The Fort McHenry Tunnel closed a gap that previously existed in I-95 through Maryland. The Key Bridge closed the gap what once existed on the south end of the Baltimore Beltway.
I remember when the south end of the Baltimore Beltway had traffic lights and then came to a dead end at Richie Highway