National Transportation Safety Board dispatches investigators, but governor says Francis Scott Key Bridge was sound
It’s so far unclear whether the downfall of the bridge, which was hit by a large container ship and crumpled into the Patapsco river early on Tuesday morning, was down to any fault in the structure itself.The National Transportation Safety Board is dispatching a team to investigate the disastrous collapse, which has left six people still unaccounted for.
“This disaster reveals how exposed America’s critical infrastructure is to sudden and devastating accidents as well as intentional destruction,” said Rick Geddes, infrastructure policy expert and director of the Cornell University infrastructure policy program. The parlous state of American bridges was singled out by the Biden administration as a motivator for the $1.2 trillion €1.1 trillion) bipartisan infrastructure law signed by the US president in 2021. The bill includes $110 billion to upgrade roads and bridges, with Biden recently visiting a deteriorating bridge in Wisconsin to tout its repair via the funding.
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