State transportation officials plan to perform an assessment on a Green Bay bridge that carries more than 40,000 vehicles each day to identify the risk of collapse if it were hit by a commercial vessel.
A new report from the National Transportation Safety Board recommends conducting vulnerability assessments on 68 bridges across the country at risk of a vessel collision. The Leo Frigo Memorial Bridge in Green Bay was the only bridge identified in Wisconsin.
The NTSB report was released as part of the investigation into the 2024 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. Federal authorities found the bridge was nearly 30 times above the acceptable risk threshold when it was struck by a containership.
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The 68 bridges identified in the report, along with the Key Bridge, were designed before current vulnerability assessment calculations were required in the design of new bridges, the NTSB said, and do not have a current assessment…