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a drawbridge can't really help this situation, bridge is way too long and the issue is that it hit a specific structure dead on. like it could've gone anywhere hundreds of meters away but it happened to hit this specific point that was critical to it holding any structure whatsoever. if you're looking for some kind of 'safety' on this the first thought would be a physical, dense blockage directly in front so that it can slow down/stop a ship in this situation. a more bureaucratic solution would be tight regulations over the waters a set distance from the bridge but i don't know what that could look like or what's already there. and finally for reconstruction you could try to have other areas be more structurally isolated/segmented so you'd get a partial collapse in the worst case but there's way better people in this topic who can talk about how feasible that is (surprisingly and thankfully).

based on how important the bridge is to baltimore the ships absolutely need to go under, it's essential transport. just a question of what can be done to make this kind of freak occurrence happen even fewer times and not as catastrophic.