Final March, a container ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland, resulting in its disastrous collapse. May the Golden Gate Bridge be in danger, too?
In a report launched this week, the Nationwide Transportation Security Board stated house owners of 68 bridges throughout america are due for a threat evaluation to find out whether or not an analogous vessel collision might take them down, too. Six of the bridges have been within the Bay Space:
— Richmond-San Rafael Bridge (Contra Costa/Marin County)— Carquinez Bridge (Contra Costa County)— Benicia-Martinez Bridge (Solano County)— Antioch Bridge (Contra Costa County)— San Mateo-Hayward Bridge (San Mateo/Alameda County)— Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco/Marin County)
Had the Maryland Transportation Authority performed this sort of evaluation, they may “have known the risk and could have taken action to safeguard the Key Bridge,” NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy stated Thursday.
“Had they done that, the collapse could have been prevented,” she stated.
The board stated that bridges included on its listing haven’t been assessed for threat of collapse in recent times, regardless of heavy visitors of containerships and cargo ships that go beneath them.
The entire Bay Space bridges on the listing have been constructed earlier than 1990, when freeway security officers started issuing steering that every one bridge house owners conduct common assessments to calculate the danger of a catastrophic collapse within the occasion of a vessel collision.
The Bay Bridge, which was initially inbuilt 1936 and had its japanese span rebuilt in 2013, was the one native bridge to not seem on the NTSB listing.
