I usually do not comment on vids. I’m a Maryland state trooper. I was stationed in the Baltimore area up until 2 weeks ago. This bridge was a big part of my daily routine. Also working the third shift there was many times I would stop and check on / talk to work crews. There was pretty much a constant crew on the bridge. Rest in peace to the souls that perished. This footage is now historical

@hook9844

Ай бұрын

I would like to say thank you for your service

@josiegrikepelis9018

Ай бұрын

😪

@iserved8840

Ай бұрын

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

@dmorgan28

Ай бұрын

Thank for your service sir!

@ambrosebarigyemukiga

Ай бұрын

Everytime I drive across our major tunnel or bridge entrances and see you guys camped aside I really now know the value of your duty there..The officer who made a call to stop incoming traffic both ways saved alot..Thank you for your work

Thank you for posting this. This video is now historical.

That bridge is now a legend.

It was heartbreaking 💔 for the loss of their loved ones during the key bridge collapse.

Thank you Mike. Your silence in this video is the loudest voice we need to hear right now.

It’s another reminder that life is so short and fragile. The people who died in the collapse will never spend the Easter holiday with their families not knowing that it was their last day. 😢 So tragic. Hold your loved ones tight and tell them you love them because you never know when they’re gone. 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you Mike for having recorded this previously and posting it now. As someone who took that route often to go around the Baltimore congestion on my past commutes from NC to Mass, seeing this video brought back those fond traveling memories. Now to the present, what a sad ending for so many on this most incredibly unfortunate situation. Your respect to the video by not speaking sent shivers down my back once I realized what you were doing. Your show of respect for the situation was very welcomed and well done. Thank you sir.

Peace to the men lost; strength for their families. Build it back; better, wider, stronger, with more protection for the bridge piers. Till then, it's gonna be a mess driving through there.

Glad you posted this for memories sake. The bridge is going to definitely look different after they rebuild it. Heck. If they were smart they'd just take this chance to tear down the rest of it and rebuild the whole thing with 6 lanes instead of 4. Might as well right?

Again, RIP this bridge as it's gone now

Thank you so much much at least to watch the bridge life

I always felt a sense of anticipation as I saw this mammoth steel structure getting closer and closer. It almost felt like you was climbing vertically when you started crossing it

Thanks Mike for you effort.

Be sure to archive this on other platforms. It's now historical footage just like footage of the Twin Towers before 9/11. As for the bridge, they should put in a suspension bridge with a really long span in the middle and huge towers buffered by islands to prevent collisions in the future.

@bentleyharris-ey4hx

Ай бұрын

Like the sunshine bridge in tampa that collapsed in 1980

1977-2024

Thanks Mike for the these extravagant videos exclusively the Francis Scott Key Bridge I enjoy watching every bridge/road clips out there

I just saw one my parents phone yep that was Baitmore Mayland bridge collapse bad on March 23,-26 47 years 1977-2024 I've never been to Maryland

Honestly I think they should Build a Suspension Bridge there like the one in Brooklyn with extra Protection so Larger Ships can't hit it i saw on Google News where thinking about Building a Cable Stayed Bridge wherever is decided is going be Beautiful & Better.

I remember many times riding across the Key Bridge with my father. He often commented that they should put wind turbines on the water to power Dundalk. He died April 21st of last year. What makes this more painful is the Bridge collapse happened on his birthday. He would have been 70 this year.

@annhenry793

Ай бұрын

My Deepest Condolences & Prayers God Bless You as You have Beautiful Memories to Remember of Your Dad hold on to them life is short.

those box beams are gona be filled with heavy mud. gov say, money money, money , money, money, moooooneey!

A nice re-packaging of those two existing videos at your channel. It's admittedly going off at a tangent, but it's personally satisfying to me that the Francis Scott Key Bridge shared a 'birthday' with Vlaďka Prachařová, being opened on her thirty-third birthday. I blog about the female Pop scene of the satellite nations of the former Soviet Bloc at 'Girls Of The Golden East' and Vlaďka is something of a favourite both for her gorgeous voice and looks, too. My latest KZread uploading, as I write, was in celebration of her eightieth birthday. I hope that the replacement will be a credit to its memory.

They should rebuild it as it was.

The 1 critical flaw about this bridge was the lack of protective structures around it. Concrete dolphins were designed to take on the impact of large ships before it strikes the bridge support pier. I find it sad that America's richest state by median income CANNOT afford a few million extra dollars for protection around an important bridge. States like Texas (Port of Houston) are definitely ahead of the game here.

@Graphics_Card

Ай бұрын

In Florida we also do have these

@flydragon7256

Ай бұрын

​@@Graphics_Card The Sunshine Skyway was rebuilt in 1987 with these protective structures after the May 9, 1980 catastrophe. Other bridges with protection include the Arthur Ravenel (SC), Golden Gate (CA), and the Betsy Ross Bridge (NJ/PA).

@DarylBoettcher

Ай бұрын

You are 100 percent correct, thats all it would have taken a little bit of protection. VERY SAD😢COULD HAVE VERY EASLY KEPT THAT BOAT 100 FEET AWAY FROM THE MAIN PILLAR.

@1972Ray

Ай бұрын

@@DarylBoettcher Not easily. That ship weighed 100,000 tons and was moving. I can't do the math but Thats an enormous amount of energy. The new bridge will no doubt be protected.

Unrelated but are you ever gonna travel to Seattle!

@MileageMikeTravels

Ай бұрын

West coast later this year

It was no conspiracy or a attack but it was human error

Now they have to pick up what’s left in the parts of the key bridge

There will now be more traffic on I-95, I-895, I-81, and I-83 for the next few weeks because this bridge collapsed

@boondoggle4820

Ай бұрын

I think it’s going to be more like the next few years.

@SuperSirianRigel

Ай бұрын

It's going to be a few years before they manage to build the replacement. It's takes at least that long to build large bridges you know.

@dianeadkins-diorio1783

Ай бұрын

try up to ten YEARS (they're saying it could take up to ten years to rebuild the bridge)

@dave.lawrence.3894

Ай бұрын

You mean the next few years....😢

It's going to take 3 to 4 months to remove the steel bridge and the concrete in the water and another 3 years of rebuilding.

So much steel and so skinny!! The new span will undoubtedly have wide break down lanes on both sides of a four lane twin tower cable stayed bridge. Wait for all the bickering to start over what the towers look like, or if the approaches need to be realigned, etc.. The New Bay bridge took about 15 years to sort out the little details before they started....

@janetphillips2875

Ай бұрын

I wish every highway in America had the pullover lanes. Some of 9ur roads dont even have shoulders.....some dont have pavement.

I saw a video about a cargo ship ran into the pillar 😮😳

And then build a new bridge after they remove the old bridge

i say in school about it collasping

1:11 Update...

Зачем днем свет на столбах горит?😮

Dude stay in your own lane WOW.

The truth of the crash may never come out lest Insurance/Compensation be denied for the Pilots/officals erranous actions when faced with an emergency situation, and was the Captain an Ukrainian who would have bought his ceriticate

too small the size of the post is not enough to carrying the bridge. the bridge is to heavy weight. using the multiple steel trust. that's why easily to collapse.

To all GOPS supporters and lawmakers stop blaming the mayor. It's the god-damned driver of that ship 🚢 when power went out. Had no right to drive the boat with no light 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ on the ship. GOPS supporters and lawmakers stop your racist views and blaming the mayor for it.

Rip.was a horrible tragedy.that never shoulda happened.😢.🙏🫣😢🌹

@meepsonic

Ай бұрын

It happened with I-35/I-10 in Minnesota, and then I-40 near Tennessee/Arkansas border, and now the bridge in Baltimore, MD in I-695

@SuperSirianRigel

Ай бұрын

At least it was in the middle of the night with almost nobody on the bridge. It would have been a Real tragedy if it had happened during rush hour. So be thankful to God and Jesus it didn't.

@davidriley1702

Ай бұрын

Please take either the Baltimore Harbor or Fort McHenry tunnel for alternate route

i hard about collapsing on the news right?