Date: 2025-01-13 Page is: DBtxt003.php txt00026676
THE BALTIMORE BRIDGE COLLAPSE
AMAZING CLEAN-UP PROGRESS
Jeff-Ostroff: First Ships Pass New Channel Since Dali Key Bridge Collapse
AMAZING CLEAN-UP PROGRESS
Jeff-Ostroff: First Ships Pass New Channel Since Dali Key Bridge Collapse
Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCPSJUM2IoU
Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
I am impressed by the progress that is being made in getting the bridge damage cleared after a huge addident.
It reminds me of why I chose to base myself in the United States early in by business career. There is a 'class' of working Americans who are world class but not much appreciated over the past 40+ years.
The progress made to clean up the damage over the past (about) four weeks is specacular.
I guess part of my interest and enthusisiasm has something to do with my summer work in Montreal in 1960 when I was visiting from the UK and on summer vacation. The University Canada Club had chartered a Boeing 707 from Air France to carry two planeloads of students from London to New York in late May and return them in early September. We were not allowed to work in the USA, but we had that right in Canada. I got summer work with the Foundation Company of Canada in Montreal. I tried to join a 'survey team' in Labrador but they were not impressed with my 'white water canoeing' experience, so I got a job working with a wheelbarrow in the hole where in Montreal where they were going to put the foundations for 'Place Ville Marie'.
Not long into the 'wheelbarrow' work I was reassigned to be the 'safety boatman' on another Foundation Company project. A ship had sunk in the middle of the St Lawrence River close the the entrance to the St. Lawrence Seaway, and the Foundations Company was given the job of removing the sunken ship.
I am reminded of what happened on that project in all sorts of practical ways as the people working on the Baltimore event get on with their work. There is a huge amount of competence which we normally don't see ... and in reality it is this real competence that is our power and especially not the people that ususally get on the news every night.
I am not 'blue collar' and I am fortunate to have an excellent education ... but I learned when I was very young that it is the 'working class' that actually gets the work done, and wins wars, and does all the important work ... and we had better not forget this. But I don't think my education was a waste of time ... in fact people like me are needed to understand how best to organise for the best outcome for all of us ... an outcome, that I argue has the potential to be better than anything so far in all of history!
Peter Burgess
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Jeff Ostoff shows you the latest updates on the engineering disaster aftermath of the MV Dali ship striking the Francis Scott Key Bridge causing the bridge collapse in Baltimore, Md. on the Patapsco River. The video also shows the incredible site of the first ships to pass through the new limited access channel, a deepwater 300 ft wide, and a 35-foot deep access channel for larger ships, the first time since the MV Dali collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, MD on March 26, 2024.
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