Why Key Bridge replacement must stand taller

The departure of the Dali, the enormous 984-foot-long container ship that slammed into a critical support column of the Francis Scott Key Bridge causing it to collapse, marked a pivotal coming and going for Baltimore’s waterfront. Gone as of last Monday was the errant vessel that generated so much misery and destruction on March 26, including the deaths of six road workers, the collapsed span choking off marine traffic on the Patapsco and leaving thousands of port-related workers temporarily without a livelihood.