An alarming fact came into public view after the 116,851-ton container ship Dali slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, sinking it into the Patapsco River: The structures designed to protect it… ...

A protection system that could keep the Delaware Memorial Bridge from collapsing when hit by a ship — even one as large as the freighter that brought down Baltimore's Francis Scott Key bridge on ...

Maryland's Bay Bridge pier protection discussions underway 02:15. BALTIMORE -- Maryland transportation leaders are discussing pier protection for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge months after a large ...

A federal agency recommended in 1981 that bridges near ports and harbors be assessed to see which ones needed better protection. In 1983, a report echoed the call, advising states and other bridge ...

“The current bridge tower pier protection systems are original to each span and today’s tankers and ships are bigger and faster than those of the 1950s and 1960s,” Thomas J. Cook, the ...

And it's not clear that any bridge protection system we currently use could've taken a direct strike right at the bridge pier, as happened, you know, the other night.

In multiple locations on the eastbound span of the iconic Chesapeake Bay Bridge — the original of the structure’s two spans, which opened in 1952 — the “pier protection is deteriorated ...

The Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) is currently in the planning stages of a $145 million pier protection project aimed at safeguarding the 70-year-old Bay Bridge from modern ship strikes.

MTA CONSIDERS BARRIERS TO PROTECT BAY BRIDGE: ... $95 million project to replace the pier protection system at the foot of the Delaware Memorial Bridge. The span carries about 100,000 vehicles per day ...

In multiple locations on the eastbound span of the iconic Chesapeake Bay Bridge — the original of the structure’s two spans, which opened in 1952 — the “pier protection is deteriorated ...