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Grand_Kirby posted...

Yeah. I understand that due to so many reasons that you can't just NOT have shipping containers travel under the bridge. It's still so uncomfortable to think about that it could JUST happen though. Even if it was a one-in-a-million chance, how many millions of ships pass underneath that each year?

I'd be interested to know what safeguards there WERE in place already before the collapse. How many things had to fail in order for this to happen?

this approach i think is more fair, basically going too far in the other direction will end up hurting millions of people in way too many ways to count (food, gas, oil, transport, employment, air quality due to more cars, etc) because of concern of a freak situation. if there's a 100 ton boat floating along a port city that means the place is also receiving 100 tons of materials and there's no feasible way of doing this on land. so transport will continue no matter what and while you can try to minimize the dangers (another bureaucratic check could be more strict safety checks for any large transport) but you need a functional city and a way to get goods to different areas on land. to some extent the city could throw in a bunch of ferries to try to ease the transition but it's not going to be an easy decade.