John F. Di Leo - I don't want to scare all of you people...

The Dali is not a big ship by today's standards. It's an average sized ship.

"I don't want to scare all of you people who are sitting at home planning on ways to protect our bridges from crashes - either accidental of intentional... but please keep this in mind:
The Dali is not a big ship by today's standards. 

It's an average sized ship...

• The Dali is a 10,000 TEU containership, meaning that when fully loaded, it holds about 10,000 twenty foot containers...
• The new ships are about 20,000 TEUs, double the size and capacity of the Dali. 
• Some are even bigger...

Where am I going with this?...

Only to say that, no matter what precautions you hope for, it's critical to remember that ships keep on getting bigger, and there's no reason to assume we've hit the maximum size yet...
I don't believe there's a way to secure a bridge like the Key Bridge against a crash with the size of containerships today or in the future.
I think we just just say, no more bridges outside of containership ports. Period.

We simply can't afford to keep throwing tax dollars we don't have at every crazy desire and hoping we can engineer our way out of it somehow.