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Originally Posted by Baz
Craig - thanks for your input here. Can you explain what we're seeing on this map for dunderheads like myself? TIA!
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Baz
Yellow line is the now missing bridge. All the red dots are shipping ports. Baltimore is largest roll on roll off facility on the east coast. The ports handle containers, cars, trucks, coal as well as sugar (Dominos is one of the top left hand dots) and cruise ships. Everything will divert to Norfolk Va, NJ and NY ports. Much larger for container freight.
Would think the channel will be cleared relatively quickly as they can cut and pull the steel structure. That would get the port back open and functioning.
Fortunately the road traffic over the bridge is probably less than 10% of the total traffic moving north-south in that area. Most of the vehicle traffic uses the two tunnels that you can see slightly above the yellow line crossing the water (I95 and I895 tunnels). Bridge only has 11 million crossings a year (30K a day).