The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is deploying more than 1,100 personnel to Baltimore, Md., following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge into the Patapsco River early Tuesday morning, the service said in a statement.
The corps’ Baltimore District has activated its Emergency Operations Center, “clearing the way for more than 1,100 engineering, construction, contracting and operations specialists to provide support to local, state and federal agencies” in clearing the fallen bridge, the Army said in the release.
The Francis Scott Key Bridge, a major bridge in Baltimore, collapsed just seconds after being struck by the Dali, a cargo ship managed by Synergy Marine Group and owned by Grace Ocean Private Ltd, a Singaporean company.
The bridge can be rebuilt “whenever” as far as I’m concerned. That’s irrelevant. All that I’m saying here is that I want the private parties responsible to foot the bill ultimately. That doesn’t mean work can’t start tomorrow, or next week, or next year, whatever. I’m pretty tired of the BigCorp “socialism for me, not for thee” attitude and don’t want them to get away with it once again.
Then why did you make a remark about the feds working on it? It heavily suggests that you rather want the legal bits sorted out first. Which is going to be “fun”. E.g. there’s a difference between owner and operator.