The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday called for urgent safety assessments of 68 bridges including iconic crossings like the Golden Gate Bridge, Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Brooklyn ...

TRANSPORTATION Newport’s Pell Bridge begins vulnerability assessment, as recommended for dozens of US bridges after Baltimore collapse The bridge is among 68 nationwide — including Boston’s ...

Meanwhile, bridges with lower risks – for instance, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in Staten Island, New York, for which the assessment predicts a ship collision every 362 years – have longer ...

The National Transportation Safety Board released preliminary findings last week recommending that the owners of 68 bridges calculate the risk of collapse due to vessel strikes.

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday called for urgent safety assessments of 68 bridges including iconic crossings like the Golden Gate ...

New reports from the NTSB and Johns Hopkins University evaluate the risk of large ships striking bridges.

New reports from the NTSB and Johns Hopkins University evaluate the risk of large ships striking bridges.