All the commentary, and this report, keeps saying how the bridge was built before ships got this big.
But why do ports & municipalities allow ships that are too large for them to handle?
The bridge was already hit in 1980 and shrugged it off, so the bridge was safe for ships up to some size. Surely the engineers had the numbers to estimate what a safe maximum size would be. So it seems like a ship like that just shouldn't have been allowed in the area in the first place.
If your truck is too heavy for a little wooden bridge, you aren't allowed to drive the truck over it.
