Hayes Gardner

In the days after the cargo ship Dali toppled Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge , the financial toll on the city was incalculable and overwhelming.

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As a ship approaching the Chesapeake Bay Bridge experienced a steering problem last month, audio recently obtained by The Baltimore Sun shows that

As a ship approaching the Chesapeake Bay Bridge experienced a steering problem last month, audio recently obtained by The Baltimore Sun shows that its pilot urgently requested that the Maryland Transportation Authority halt vehicle traffic on the span to avoid the remote possibility of a tragedy similar to the one that killed six people on the Francis Scott Key Bridge this spring.

BALTIMORE — As a ship approaching the Chesapeake Bay Bridge experienced a steering problem last month, audio recently obtained by The Baltimore Sun shows that its pilot urgently requested that the Maryland Transportation Authority halt vehicle traffic on the span to avoid the remote possibility of a tragedy similar to the one that killed six people on the Francis Scott Key Bridge this spring. ...

Maryland seeks to hold the Dali’s owner and manager “accountable for their reckless conduct, negligence, mismanagement, and incompetency.”

In recent years only a handful of U.S. bridges had Dali-sized ships pass under them more frequently than Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Francis

“Feels like yesterday, feels like an eternity,” said Bruce Gartner, executive director of the Maryland Transportation Authority, which owned the bridge and is responsible for its rebuild.

In multiple locations on the eastbound span of the iconic Chesapeake Bay Bridge — the original of the structure's two spans, which opened in 1952 — the “pier protection is deteriorated, detached, and missing,” according to the most recent official inspection of the bridge.