• TimeSquirrel
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    8 months ago

    I live in Baltimore. If one more automated website algorithm smashes the news of this bridge into my face I’m gonna scream out loud. I have to constantly click “not interested” on my YT front page. “Oh, this dude lives in BMore, I bet he wants to know about the fucking tangled wreck he can literally see every day from his house 24/7”.

    Not because of you, OP, you’re cool.

    • @[email protected]
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      38 months ago

      If it makes you feel better I’m half the country away and wake up to 3 new articles a day about it. I clicked the first one which I guess was my mistake but it seemed important.

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      18 months ago

      Hey since you’re here, there’s something I was wondering about that these articles don’t go over: what happens now while the bridge is rebuilt? Is there another one nearby that traffic is redirected to, or is there a ferry service now?

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        8 months ago

        There are two tunnels that carry 95 through the center of the city, and the other side of the 695 beltway that takes you around the city on the opposite side of the bridge. That bridge was mainly used by shipping companies from all the distribution centers and warehouses on the southeast side, so now they’ll all have to go an extra several dozen miles around the other way and making normal traffic a nightmare.

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          28 months ago

          It’s times like this that I remember how little traffic there was all through covid when everyone was quarantining or working from home. Imagine if the city ordered people to work from home to free up traffic for shipping until a new bridge is built.