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"We The People" didn't try and operate a vessel with containers stacked so high its ridiculous. Where were the tugboats? Bridges are not bumper cars. You canno

"We The People" didn't try and operate a vessel with containers stacked so high its ridiculous. Where were the tugboats? Bridges are not bumper cars. You cannot hit them. To call it flimsy when the bridge carried 34,000 cars a day is silly. I should not pay for gross misconduct. Why did the boat leave the pier with a faulty engine?

defrost 3y ago
The reality is complicated, there are liability arguments on both sides and a deal to be struck that'll land most costs on one party over another. * Where were the tugboats? * Why did the boat leave the pier with a faulty engine? The ship was still within harbour waters under the control of local harbour pilots. They didn't have tugboats within near distance and they took the engine status on good faith. As a risk management exercise if you run a harbour with high traffic then eventually a ship will have an engine|rudder|other failure within harbour waters and bridges will be struck with glancing to major blows. It's an older bridge built before ship sizes grew, was the harbour infrastructure lagging behind the nature of the traffic it purported to serve? Other harbours have pylons protected with substantial barriers, other harbours ban traffic | workers on cross harbour bridges when ships move (eg: Tasmania after they had a ship hit a bridge). The ship maintainance was very likely at fault, the harbour should have mitigation plans against ship faults, etc.
ViewTrick1002 3y ago
> Where were the tugboats? Bridges are not bumper cars. You cannot hit them. Through a bridges lifetime in a busy shipping lane you can expect it to get hit. Thus any reasonable bridge is designed with, or has barriers retrofitted to them. It just US infrastructure lagging behind as is typical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_(structure) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_(structure) https://www.drba.net/drba-proceeds-new-bridge-ship-collision-protection-system https://www.drba.net/drba-proceeds-new-bridge-ship-collision...

defrost 3y ago

The reality is complicated, there are liability arguments on both sides and a deal to be struck that'll land most costs on one party over another. * Where were the tugboats? * Why did the boat leave the pier with a faulty engine? The ship was still within harbour waters under the control of local harbour pilots. They didn't have tugboats within near distance and they took the engine status on good faith. As a risk management exercise if you run a harbour with high traffic then eventually a ship will have an engine|rudder|other failure within harbour waters and bridges will be struck with glancing to major blows. It's an older bridge built before ship sizes grew, was the harbour infrastructure lagging behind the nature of the traffic it purported to serve? Other harbours have pylons protected with substantial barriers, other harbours ban traffic | workers on cross harbour bridges when ships move (eg: Tasmania after they had a ship hit a bridge). The ship maintainance was very likely at fault, the harbour should have mitigation plans against ship faults, etc.

ViewTrick1002 3y ago

> Where were the tugboats? Bridges are not bumper cars. You cannot hit them. Through a bridges lifetime in a busy shipping lane you can expect it to get hit. Thus any reasonable bridge is designed with, or has barriers retrofitted to them. It just US infrastructure lagging behind as is typical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_(structure) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_(structure) https://www.drba.net/drba-proceeds-new-bridge-ship-collision-protection-system https://www.drba.net/drba-proceeds-new-bridge-ship-collision...