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While we are examining this bridge. A lot of bridges have an electrical chase with conduit and some even have pipes that carry gas/nat gas/water.
Do not know if this bridge had any?
Assuming this bridge had "street lights" so there could have been an electrical current.
http://www.roadstothefuture.com/Balt_Outer_Harbor.html
Some details on the bridge construction project. Not the bridge itself.
Definitely had an electrical current flowing thru it.
I think those explosions are the live wires being cut with a current. Pop!
Yes
The Key Bridge was a toll facility operated by the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA). The toll rate for cars as of July 1, 2013 was $4.00. The bridge was part of the E-Zpass system, and included two dedicated E-Zpass lanes in its toll plaza in both the northbound and southbound directions. In April 2019, MDTA announced that the bridge would become a cashless toll facility by October 2019. With this system, customers without E-Zpass pay using video tolling. Cashless tolling began on the bridge on October 30, 2019.
https://structurae.net/en/structures/francis-scott-key-bridge
Looks like it was just updated today.
No date on the page itself, but the collapse data has already been added - screen cap
Not sure everyone agrees yet.
Does anyone know the infrastructure grade on this particular bridge? a lot of them in the US have failing supports and aging steel
https://infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/maryland/