Major bridge collapse in Baltimore

The Baltimore Banner is a worthwhile follow.

 

Former Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx served in between those two. He was transportation secretary during Obama's second term.

Yes it is. A lot of familiar names from the Baltimore Sun of the mid-2000s and early 2010s in the bylines.

 

Probably a better question is, what has a recent DOT Sec'y done to merit any recollection whatsoever?

 

Elaine Chao was Secretary of Transportation. She is also Mitch McConnell's wife. That's how come I remember.

 

The Seattle Pilots weren't a reference to Boeing.
My dad was in the Navy and liked to sail so I got into this stuff a little. It's a big deal for a captain to hand over his ship, but there are some crazy places to pilot a ship.

 

What’s Lou Holtz doing on that Harley?!?!

 

Norm Minetta was the longest-serving in that position. He was the only Dem in W’s cabinet.

 

RIP. He really was remarkable.

 

The land yachts of the 1970s had pretty much the same footprint as the biggest of today's pickups. And the roads and bridges were narrower.

 

I don't disagree with that, and I well remember the cars of the late '60s and 70s, but I ride around on the same roads I did then, and I don't ever recall seeing two vehicles complete to a complete stop and have a standoff because they couldn't get by one another. Maybe it was just there wasn't as much traffic, so it didn't happen often.
I've also personally seen instances where two school buses or two deliver trucks couldn't pass in opposite directions.

 

As much as I'd like to agree with you, I remember seeing two big rigs ease past each other on the old railroad bridges in the Florida Keys back in the 1970s when I was a kid. If they can do it, then a Super Duty (width 80 inches, a tenth of an inch bigger than an F-150) will be fine.