Francis Scott Key Bridge

She's led a work group on highway worker safety that led to successful legislation.

She's been an integral part of the state's efforts to rebuild the Key Bridge, focusing on the economic impact of the disaster.

Miller has been active on an array of issues, including transportation, mental health, and STEM equity.

She heads a new council on interfaith outreach.

Today, coming up on the C4 and Brian Neiman podcast, we're going to be joined by the executive director of the Maryland Transportation Authority, Bruce Gartner, who wrote a commentary in the Baltimore Sun about how the rebuild of the Francis Scott Key Bridge is transparent, even though many people think it isn't.

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On a mega infrastructure project like the Francis Scott Key Bridge rebuild, it's the responsibility of those managing the project to explain the facts, processes, and progress in ways that communities can understand.

So reading that, Brian Neiman, I took him up on that.

And we reached out, and we're very pleased now to be joined by the executive director of the Maryland Transportation Authority, Bruce Gartner, who wrote that in his commentary in the Baltimore Sun over the weekend.

And that's sort of giving an opening to you and your campaign.

You've just announced a plan to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

This bridge collapse and the lack of the Moore administration to be able to do anything about getting it rebuilt the entire time he's been governor.

It's a perfect example of this guy being all show, all talk and no action.

So there's the main character.

There's the main character, right? Who yearns for this old past, who goes out on the pier, who looks off into the distance, right? At the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore or at Daisy's Dock in Gatsby, right? He has a helper, right? named Nick, actually, who helps sort of do this.

He uses bootlegging money or illegal smuggling money, whatever, to try to realize this dream.

But ultimately, you can't sail against the current.

On top of that, we also know that they had weapons stored in Virginia.

in case that they needed, which is right over the Key Bridge.

They would have been back and forth in 15 minutes, 20 minutes, and so

on.

In 2003, the supersonic Concorde jet made its last commercial flight, flying from New York to London.

In 2012, Hurricane Sandy roared across Jamaica and headed toward Cuba on its way to the eastern U.S. What became known as Superstorm Sandy was a combination of the hurricane and other storms that struck New York and surrounding areas, killing 147 people, 72 in the eastern U.S., In 2024, the owner and manager of the cargo ship Dolly agreed to pay more than $102 million in cleanup costs from the 2023 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge near the port of Baltimore, Maryland.

The Dolly had crashed into the bridge, destroying the 1.6-mile span and killing six members of a roadwork crew.

And that does it for today's reading of the Cedar Rapids Gazette for Saturday, October 24, 2026.

Yes.

The March 2024 National Transportation Safety Board investigation into the Dolly's contact with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.

It provides this fascinating masterclass in timeline reconstruction.

They really had to dig deep for that one.

I forgot where.

The Francis Scott Key Bridge, yes, which was across the Maryland Harbor, Baltimore Harbor.

And that, it was a hazmat bridge.

Yes.