The inadequacy of existing safeguards to protect bridges and other infrastructure from ever-larger container ships was considered in a House hearing May 15, a day after the NTSB released its preliminary report on the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
As bodies of two missing workers were recovered, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg pledges a united effort to reopen the Port of Baltimore as soon as possible amid an NTSB full investigation.
Citing the 2022 Pittsburgh span failure, the National Transportation Safety Board says bridges made of uncoated weathering steel plate could face accelerated deterioration and potential collapse without immediate action.
An out-of-control Acura, which sped through an opening in the concrete barriers separating a work zone from highway travel lanes on Interstate-695, caused six worker fatalities.
The Texas Dept. of Transportation has suspended design work on Corpus Christi’s Harbor Bridge pending a safety review of plans prepared by FIGG Bridge Group, one of the firms faulted by the National Transportation Safety Board for last year’s deadly pedestrian bridge collapse at Florida International University.
In its Oct. 22 announcement of the probable cause of the Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse, officials with the National Transportation Safety Board characterized the investigation as one of its most complex.