Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore...

antipop said

it seems like they replaced the twin spans over Lake Pontchartrain fairly quickly after Katrina...it was obviously different since they were able to piecemeal one of the bridges as a temporary bridge to allow traffic to continue....

still, it was 2 separate bridges at about 6 miles each that went up pretty quickly, from what i remember....

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The original Francis Scott Key bridge took 5 years to build.

Estimates have been between months to 4 years for a replacement. The primary factor will be what shape the supports are still in, and if they'd even use them or beef them up. So, a design has to be settled on, and funding. Seems like the Federal Gov't will foot the bill (at least until they file suit with the cargo company), so that should speed things up. US Army Corps of Engineers has been activated. So, we shall see...

I'd set the over under at 2 years.