0:17, correction - it was going to sri lanka when it struck the bridge, not norfolk. It went to norfolk, for off loading and repairs after they had removed the debris off the bow.
@domin8r12
Ай бұрын
correction: the bridge collapsed on march 26, not the 28th.
@taloisi
23 күн бұрын
Baltimore resident here. The huge rise in telecommuting that lingered after covid has significantly helped. Traffic would be much worse if so many of us were not telecommuting.
@teacher555555
Ай бұрын
as someone who lives within 1 hour of baltimore, you have not even touched the tip of the iceberg.
@Gic424_YT
13 күн бұрын
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@ScarletRebel96
Ай бұрын
As someone born and raised in the state of Maryland I can definitely say Baltimore has ALWAYS been bad as long as both me and my dad have been alive
@adevanzant5426
Ай бұрын
Ditto. But instead of my Dad, my grandma. 😣 it’s sad, because I love my state, even have the state flags tatted on my arm, but I detest when I say I’m from Maryland and people instantly ask me if I’m from Baltimore.
@davidfrischknecht8261
Ай бұрын
It would have been a lot more fatal if the ship hadn't been able to contact the authorities when they first started losing power. Because of that, the authorities were able to get traffic on the bridge shut down in time.
@dhinton1
Ай бұрын
Very true. Stopping traffic from attempting to cross the bridge undoubtedly saved a couple dozen lives. cuz that bridge span folded like origami.
@Nobody-ue5qs
Ай бұрын
If I’m correct,most of the causalities of this incident were part of a roadwork crew filling potholes,you can see the blinking orange lights of their trucks in the collapse footage
@benwalter1221
Ай бұрын
The influx of traffic could have significantly helped if Baltimore had invested in the transit that we do and should have. Unfortunately, MDOT MTA has sat on the sidelines, not doing much of anything to entice people to use transit and relieve congestion. Now, I know there is very much a negative stigma to using transit in Baltimore, but if our government could ensure that you would be safe and make public transportation look "cool," people would use it.
@davidroddini1512
Ай бұрын
Wow! So it really was the Key bridge!
@carlosrivas1629
Ай бұрын
it should be a tunnel but that is quite a long one too. its very shallow.
@katieandkevinsears7724
Ай бұрын
The problem with tunnels is you can't ship hazmats through them. The Key bridge was the way to ship that through the Baltimore area.
@carlosrivas1629
Ай бұрын
@@katieandkevinsears7724 yep that makes sense but then the only way might be to dredge and or raise the bridge which as someone who is afraid of heights, i do not like.
@dhinton1
Ай бұрын
@@katieandkevinsears7724 and for good reason ....
@Saustelauft
Ай бұрын
Thank you so much for this context!
@MrGalactica75
Ай бұрын
I was off the bridge three minutes before it collapsed. I left that job, since it was overnight and demanding 70+ hours, and now work farther out. The loss of the Key Bridge makes my drive to and from work an additional 20-40 minutes (depending on the time of day).
@LyleFrancisDelp
Ай бұрын
Cars, trucks, and hazmat vehicles can always take the western beltway around Baltimore. It may take little longer, but it's not that bad. Until the bridge is rebuilt, it's the only way for hazmat vehicles, as they are not allowed in the two tunnels.
@ColinTheMC
Ай бұрын
Nah it's pretty bad. It was bad before the bridge collapsed.
@ColinTheMC
Ай бұрын
Correction: Officials haven't even selected a design for the new bridge or a contractor to build it yet. Also, Baltimore traffic was already considered some of the worst in the nation even before the bridge collapsed, consistently ranking in the top 10. As a local, I can confirm every interstate in the area has gotten worse.
@dhinton1
Ай бұрын
the design part alone can take up to a year ... especially considering that phase undoubtedly has to include the lengthy approaches on both sides of the bridge.
@ErikCB912
Ай бұрын
lol Baltimore traffic isn’t that bad. I’ve driven from New York to Florida and back several times and I’ve never run into traffic in Baltimore while I’ve hit traffic plenty of times other places especially DC and NY areas. I always use the I-95 tunnel, never needed to use 895 or 695. And the city’s not even growing that much so it’s not like it’s had a population surge and the roads can’t keep up with additional local traffic.
@ColinTheMC
Ай бұрын
@@ErikCB912 You must’ve gotten lucky then.
@ErikCB912
Ай бұрын
@@ColinTheMC then I’ve gotten lucky at least 10 times. I’ve driven in several metro areas: NY, Boston, Philly, DC, Atlanta, Tampa, Jax, Miami, Orlando Chicago, SF, LA. I can confidently say that Baltimore has been the easiest metro area to drive through, bridge or no bridge. And I’ve hit it at various times throughout the day and week, so it’s not like I always drive through Baltimore at a convenient time. If anything I’ve run into more traffic in northern Virginia and northern Maryland.
@ColinTheMC
Ай бұрын
@@ErikCB912 I’m just passing along what multiple published studies have reported. There’s also more than just 95 in Baltimore. Try the beltway at rush hour between 70 and 95.
@ThatHighwayGuy-n8f
Ай бұрын
Great video has always! So sad to see it happen...
@PhilipWatts-q5r
Ай бұрын
Port is open open, but the ships are still being diverted to other ports, and Baltimore's port is doing a fraction of its old cargo with less jobs available
@awesomeman116a
Ай бұрын
Yeah it makes sense, I guess they don’t want all those trucks just stuck in traffic and losing money :( Hopefully once the bridge is back, the port will be back to its normal self
@decisive-dolphin
Ай бұрын
dont you dare forget your EarthMC roots
@user-nz9hv5go2v
Ай бұрын
Not just you, but why do youtubers ask you to like a video at the beginning. How about asking once we've seen the video? Beyond that, I appreciate how this video takes a more holistic view of the Key Bridge collapse scenario and helps put it in perspective for the rest of us. One of your better videos imho.
@EthanNeal
Ай бұрын
The KZitem algorithm somewhat forces people to ask for likes, contents, and subs. The more engagement a video gets (i.e. those 3 things), the more likely it'll be pushed out to a larger audience. Combine that with a shortening attention span, and well, you get that.
@BeaverGeography
Ай бұрын
I have to ask for subscribers at the beginning because that's the only time everyone is watching. Most of the time, the only people who are gonna watch to the end are gonna be my already loyal subscribers. I get what you mean completely, it's just the best option for me
@adevanzant5426
Ай бұрын
@@BeaverGeography I don’t like how the powers that be have shifted this community into where that has to be requested - I should be able to get just consume my content from whom I like it from and they get compensated from just that. I enjoy your content enough to play into their system - normally, each piece of content I consume from the creators I love (like yourself) I go through the comments and like their comments, as well as, of course, liking the video. I thank you for expanding my knowledge a little more on why I’ve seen become basically common place. I appreciate you and your content & I hold nothing but good intentions for your forthcoming college journey!
@lees3935
Ай бұрын
Thank you for your concise and relevant coverage. This particular infrastructure failure has been reported by many lengthy articles, video, etc.
@thepeff
Ай бұрын
Great video! I live in Denver and I have precious few sources for the development of the Francis Scott Key Bridge so this helps out a lot. Good luck in college!
@BeaverGeography
Ай бұрын
Thank you!
@patrickgallagher9069
Ай бұрын
34000 vehicles per day (vpd) is a fairly low traffic volume for interstates. Some busy routes get 200,000 vpd! 100,000 is probably more common. Adding 34,000 to two routes would have an impact. But its not like adding another 200,000, had it been a more typical inner city interstate.
@benwalter1221
Ай бұрын
As someone who lives in the Baltimore area and used the Key Bridge, the traffic is still very much worse than before. It was also the only way for people of the eastern suburbs in Dundalk and Sparrows Point to get to places like the airport and southern Baltimore.
@tudorjason
Ай бұрын
I barely remember this I just combine it with all the other bridge collapses and other infrastructure failures the US has experienced, starting with I-35 in MN. This really is a disaster, particularly economically. America became the superpower it is because of its infrastructure. Hopefully cost overruns and corruption won't happen; otherwise, they will delay the opening of the replacement bridge.
@ErikCB912
Ай бұрын
The infrastructure wasn’t the problem. The problem was the ship losing power and the lack of protection around the bridge supports. Same thing happened with the sunshine skyway bridge in 1980 and the bridge was rebuilt with more dolphins and tiny islands around the supports.
@kennixox262
Ай бұрын
@@ErikCB912 Agreed. Unfortunately, the bridge supports however did not have abutments to prevent ships hitting the piers. Just recently in Charleston, SC; the relatively new Author Ravenel bridge nearly got hit by a container ship leaving the Wando terminal.
@HandcupOfficial_V2
Ай бұрын
Baltimore has been dangerous for a while. However, if you mean like dangerous transportation wise, then i can see what you are talking about.
@girldaddividendinvestor
Ай бұрын
That's literally what he's talking about.
@HandcupOfficial_V2
Ай бұрын
@@girldaddividendinvestor Alr
@miked31784
Ай бұрын
0:01 March 26 not March 28
@TaliaMiraglia
Ай бұрын
So sad to see that collapse😢 but beaver geography videos always make me feel better😅
@lobos320
Ай бұрын
Another long stretch of I get state with no exits in Florida is on I-10 through the Osceola National Forest. The stretch is from exit 303/US 441 to exit 324/US 90 . There is a rest area EB and WB. The WB rest area has a trailhead for a trail and boardwalk into the Fanny Bay swamp
@craftyrobertvlogs4689
Ай бұрын
I ♥ Beaver
@colormedubious4747
Ай бұрын
As do most men. 🤣
@PurpleWorldOrder
Ай бұрын
if it's going to take several years to rebuild the bridge, why has the state not even looked at using a temporary ferry service across the harbor there
@dhinton1
Ай бұрын
ferrying trucks across a river with a port crossing? that just sounds like a BAD idea ...
@davidbulles5732
8 күн бұрын
I live in Dundalk. For years always used to take 695 and the bridge to Pasadena. Well more like Ft smallwood road to go to my buddy for the RC track / Hobby shop or PC repair. Now since this. I have to take 95 to 295 to 695. Or take 95 all the way to 695. Other routes like 895 and going through hawkins point IS possible but that road sucks for your car due to all those pot holes due to all the truckers. With taking 695 to exit 1, 15 minutes from my house. Now taking 35 minutes average. 45 to 50 minutes if your going in rush hour. Same goes if your trying to get to glen burnie area. Or down to Annapolis to the bay bridge.
@davidbulles5732
8 күн бұрын
When going down to the beach (OC) for a day trip. Used to take 695 to route 10 or 2 to the bay bridge. Now having to take a longer way and go use 97 to 895 and getting off at holabird ave. It is depressing. Not seeing the bridge. Not going over the bridge anymore. Im 15 now. Ill be driving soon and the new bridge probably won't be 50 percent done when I get my license. The on ramps for the bridge are still standing. No one has touched them for demolition yet.
@ZackDemarcoFeltz-qh7qu
Ай бұрын
Cool video
@Chris_winthers
Ай бұрын
Beaverman come back to emc we need you
@sams3015
Ай бұрын
I don’t know Balitmore well but why didn’t they put in temporary ferry service. At least that’s local traffic only or something
@ColinTheMC
Ай бұрын
That would require purchasing ferries and building temporary ferry infrastructure. Neither of which the state or the city could afford at the moment.
@PhilipWatts-q5r
Ай бұрын
Ferry service couldn't handle 34,000 vehicles or hazmat trucks
@carnakthemagnificent336
Ай бұрын
Maybe a crazy idea, but perhaps consider container/trailer barges to operate between existing port terminals to carry freight while the bridge is being rebuilt.
@ToABrighterFuture
Ай бұрын
Any long-time Maryland resident knows that when they announce a new infrastructure project, to add five years of construction delays and a billion dollars in cost overruns, to be closer to the actual result. See, for example, the DC Purple Line, and the Silver Spring Transit Center.
@Gic424_YT
13 күн бұрын
I was born in maryland, and only living 2-2 and a half hours away by car, it’s always bad, but I went to BWI after the collapse in June, and traffic was way worse, after I got back from Florida after a week, when we tried to go home, we were stuck in traffic for like 15-30 minutes
@andyjay729
13 күн бұрын
It would be, since BWI isn't too far from the bridge site. For a few months after the disaster you could still "drive" over the bridge via Google Street View; maybe not everyone's GPS system has been updated yet, leading to confusion among some out-of-towners.
@Gic424_YT
13 күн бұрын
@@andyjay729 I’m a maryland local, so I know that
@andyjay729
Ай бұрын
It seems like for people traveling the length of the East Coast, it might be best to take either I-81 or US-13 down the Delmarva Peninsula followed by the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.
@Gic424_YT
13 күн бұрын
NOO I DONT WANT MORE TRAFFIC DOWN HERE, IT CALM
@FatManWalking18
Ай бұрын
correction- the port never closed, i think you meant "closed to cargo vessels"
@JAldrich73
Ай бұрын
What is worse is if the truck is carrying HAZMAT materials then it has to take the 695 beltway the other direction all around the city because HAZMAT cannot go through tunnels on 95 or 895.
@BeaverGeography
Ай бұрын
I said that in the video yeah
@davidpottinger987
Ай бұрын
That is a fact for real!!!!!!!
@RyanUehara12345252Rpage
Ай бұрын
The bridge is not going to be done anytime soon, so what is the government going to do to improve traffic
@njdevilku1340
Ай бұрын
My question is why is I-97 not just part of I-83???
@chaoticcyrus2695
Ай бұрын
0:01 it was march 26 not 28
@miked31784
Ай бұрын
RVers used the bridge because they can’t use the tunnels due to hazardous propane.
@colormedubious4747
Ай бұрын
RVers can take the long detour because they always have a bathroom with them.
@Cerby1979
Ай бұрын
Crime in Baltimore has been very high for decades and with the bridge collapse, there’ll be more congestion and increase in road rage incidents.
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