As the full scope of the dramatic and shocking collapse of Baltimore's crucial Francis Scott Key Bridge comes into focus, the region and the nation are just beginning to grapple with what the ...

Demolition of the remaining structures of Baltimore’s collapsed Key Bridge will begin on July 7, the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) announced on Thursday.

An assessment following last year’s deadly accident found the Baltimore bridge was almost 30 times greater than the risk threshold, the National Transportation Safety Board said.

The fallen bridge was one of three highway routes traversing Baltimore Harbor — the two others are tunnels beneath the harbor — and handled 31,000 cars per day, or 11.3 million vehicles a year.

Another officer says: "We got a call a minute, if that, before it hit it." He then adds: "This is gonna be a hell of a cleanup." The officer discuss how there were workers on the bridge at the ...

The bridge took five years to build and opened in 1977. More than 30,000 people traveled on it every day, Maryland state officials said.

Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed early Tuesday morning. Here's what you need to know about it. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 79°F. Saturday, July 19th 2025 ...

Before the bridge collapse, Baltimore's tonnage hovered around 700,000 container tons a month, Maryland's Open Data Portal found. Before the Panama Canal expansion, the figures were closer to 500,000.

In Baltimore, bridge builders must be economic futurists. The rebuilt Francis Scott Key Bridge will have to accommodate not just the ships and trucks of today, but those of a 100 years from now.

NPR's Debbie Elliott asks engineering professor Sebastian Bryson what officials will be considering as they plan to rebuild the collapsed bridge in Baltimore.

After the Sunshine Skyway bridge collapsed, stronger protections were put in place. Baltimore’s bridge didn’t have them. A ship approaches the Sunshine Skyway bridge in March 2021. Visible in ...

A March 26 Instagram video (direct link, archive link) shows a man pointing to a freeze frame from video of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsing in Baltimore. "You can see an explosion occur ...