Concrete barriers on Maryland’s bridges and overpasses are not strong enough to withstand impact from large commercial vehicles, traffic safety advocates said. Police and federal transportation ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Rhode Island has filed a lawsuit against 13 companies over the failure of the Washington Bridge, alleging they failed to identify and address “worsening structural issues” ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A huge shipping vessel that collided with a major bridge in Baltimore has left numerous people missing and could cause significant ...
Rhode Island Transportation Director Peter Alviti Jr. blamed private contractors − in full − for the failure of the westbound Washington Bridge while defending the state's near total reliance on ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Everything went wrong in the exact worst way. For decades, countless ships sailed under the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Each one tacitly presented a threat, ...
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The cargo ship collision that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in ...
The cargo ship collision that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last Tuesday is raising questions about just how much engineers can do to prevent such catastrophes from occurring in ...
Bridge inspections are time-consuming, inefficient and often subjective processes that rely heavily on human judgment, leading to overlooked or underestimated structural problems or damage. A new ...