When the 1,200-foot-long Francis Scott Key Bridge opened in 1977, its enormous steel-truss design was the state of the art for river crossings. But in the decades since, a more modern design that has ...

Not many bridges can take a direct hit from a 95,000-ton ship without crumbling, engineering experts agree. But they also say Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, if built today, might have stood a ...

Had you crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge just a few weeks ago, as millions of motorists did before a wayward container ship struck it in the early hours of March 26, you’d have passed below a ...

The rebuilt Francis Scott Key Bridge will have to accommodate not just the ships and trucks of today, but those of a 100 years from now. In February, the state of Maryland released the design for a ...

BEING DISCUSSED. MARCH 26TH, 130 IN THE MORNING, PHONES STARTED RINGING, I THINK LIKE SO MANY THINGS, YOU’RE IN A STATE OF SHOCK IN THE BEGINNING, A CARGO SHIP HIT THE KEY BRIDGE, SENDING IT CRASHING ...

BALTIMORE - Plans are being discussed to reconstruct a new Francis Scott Key Bridge. However, what is being considered? While the Maryland Transportation Authority says they are moving at a rapid ...

It will be more than four years before a Francis Scott Key Bridge replacement again connects I-695 over the Baltimore harbor, but by this summer, the state is expected to identify its builder. During ...

Elgin’s Kimball Street Bridge won’t be as eye-catching as San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, but it could end up having a signature design that makes it stand out in the Fox River Valley. The city’s ...

Baltimore has now joined Tacoma as a city inextricably linked with monumental bridge collapses. But the demise of the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge less than a year after it opened in 1940 came during a ...

If you’re a daily commuter across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, you probably find nothing awesome about it; the bridge is just part of a tired routine, 4 miles of the drive from Kent Island to Sandy ...