My apologies for the Twitter link. Appears to have happened around 1:30 EDT, judging from the timestamp in the video. Seems unsurprising that Amerikkkan infrastructure is in this dire of a state (at the cost of innocent people’s lives, as usual), but I’d still love to know what the hell happened here. Hopefully the early hour meant that more people weren’t harmed.

Photo of the aftermath:

  • Cromalin [she/her]
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    541 year ago

    jesus

    also this bridge is a massively important part of keeping the entire east coast functioning. the tragedy of the people who were on it is obviously more important, but this is a massive disaster, like holy shit. the number of people this bridge is important to?

    • SnowySkyes [she/her]
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      301 year ago

      It’s a major artery for Baltimore traffic. It’s going to massively fuck traffic patterns for the city for the foreseeable future. I’m very thankful that this happened at 1:30, because of that hit during morning rush hour, so many more people would’ve lost their lives.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        121 year ago

        It’s going to massively fuck traffic patterns for the city for the foreseeable future.

        5-10 years if they can even bother to try and rebuild it, or permanently if they cancel the project half way through which is entirely possible if they decide it’s already killed the businesses and life of the city in a few years.

    • Hohsia [he/him]
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      371 year ago

      Reminds me of how graeber talks about the social value of bridges in bullshit jobs