JamesWNeal,
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Some insight into what happened in the minutes before the Key Bridge collapsed.

Cool, direct, urgent, successful. Maybe not a college degree or a 6-figure salary among them—and they used their training & experience at the most critical, high-pressure moment to save lives. All day, every day-that happens & we don't see it. That's your 'deep state? Just in Port of Baltimore, 45 cargo container ships come & go every 24 hours. 16,000 ships a year. They require all this guidance all the time (and US has 8 LARGER ports). Each ship with 5,000 containers loaded & unloaded. Not to mention The 8 construction workers on the bridge—-patching potholes in the middle of the night, so the road stays maintained, at a time that reduces inconvenience to us (and yes, is easier for them too because of low traffic). Every night...
Every night, 5 or 6 days a week, men & women just like them do that dangerous work on interstates & bridges in all 50 states. ... Here's the moment: An officer who closed one of the approaches says on radio...Can we notify the construction workers? Can we call the supervisor?' The officer was ready to drive out & warn the workers when someone on the radio — seconds later — said, The bridge is down. The whole bridge. That unnamed officer had been immediately thinking about how to save those guys out on the bridge—workers just like him. Thanks. - Thanks to all these folks who make the world run, and run safely 99% of the time, and work with skill, grace, clear-headedness in invisible but essential jobs. Even as disaster unfolded Tuesday after midnight, they were at work.

davidhmccoy,
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@JamesWNeal

I’ve done govt work(software dev). Most are people toiling to do a good job.

People hate regulation until their deck collapses or they eat tainted food.

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adelgado,
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@JamesWNeal isn't it that the workers on the bridge were also migrants? Not just any person taking care of the infra of their own city, but people that went miles away north for a better life at the price of their own life

Npars01,
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@JamesWNeal

The obfuscation of responsibility, ownership, & liability in shipping is alarming.

The airline industry is a close 2nd.

Imagine operating a truck like this:

Cargo owned by 1 entity. Truck owned by a 2nd, leased to a 3rd, speedometer & steering wheel leased & maintained by a 4th, truck driver subcontracted at bottom dollar prices from a 5th, & each element insured separately, each registered & regulated in a different country.

The Kidd bridge lawsuits will last decades.

cstross,
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@Npars01 @JamesWNeal That "truck operating" scenario is EXACTLY how the British passenger rail network operates 500 tonne trains with 300 passengers routinely running at 125mph.

Nationalize the railways!

(It's also how most airlines handle capacity shortfalls via wet leasing.)

Cadbury_Moose,

@cstross Not quite: the underlying infrastructure is all Network Rail and anyone using it has to play by their rules, with pretty much unlimited penalties for breaking them. (Unlike those malware-infected Polish locomotives that we heard about recently: /that/ company needs to be taken away from its owners and the culprits permanently banned.) UK Rail is effectively nationalised and getting closer to the target.

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