No disrespect to people killed or disrupted by falling bridges, but it would be nice to get even a tenth of that attention on road safety, the lack of which kills more than a million people globally each year, including 40k Americans, and injures many times more - a number that is going up when it should go down.
' “We know what these folks really want to say when they say DEI mayor,” he told The Banner. “Whether it is DEI or clown. They really want to say the ‘n’ word. But there is nothing they can do and say to me that is worse than the treatment of my ancestors. I am proud of who I am and where I come from.” '
“Does America need a more searing visual image than eight men working for their piece of the America dream — filling potholes on a terrifying bridge in 1 a.m. darkness — to understand that our nation was built by immigrants, runs on immigrant labor and needs immigrants?”
What I want to know about the #FrancisScottKeyBridge collapse in #Baltimore is why weren’t there tugboats guiding the ship under the bridge? Was it budget cuts? Are tugboats no longer a thing? #BridgeCollapse
News about the #Baltimore#FrancisScottKeyBridge#Bridge#BridgeCollapse that happed at 1:30 AM EST from the BBC, updated as news comes in. So far, 2 people rescued, 6 still missing, they were construction workers fixing potholes. One is in the hospital. The ship issued a Mayday before the collision, which stopped cars from coming on the bridge and saved lives. The cargo vessel lost power just before collision. FBI says it was not a terrorist attack. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-68663071
it's interesting to me that along with the search and rescue efforts most posts are mentioning the traffic congestion that will be caused by the Baltimore bridge collapse. Few are saying anything about a large port being closed indefinitely. Any ship in port is now stuck there until debris is removed along with a large disabled container ship. #Baltimore#BridgeCollapse#PortClosed