The Maryland Transportation Authority is now evaluating proposals to replace the bridge, which collapsed after it was struck by a cargo vessel in March, with an eye on a possible completion by 2028.
Crews building the new crossing will soon reach a milestone as bridge sections being built between Detroit and Windsor, Canada
will be joined in the middle by the end of June.
Crews are preparing to remove a 5,000-ton section of bridge steel from the deck of the cargo vessel M/V Dali, in hopes of refloating the vessel and further clearing the channel blocked by the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
In addition to fiber-reinforced polymer protection, contractor used extra shifts, value engineering to advance work on Harkers Island Bridge in North Carolina's Outer Banks.