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In the background you see the Francis Scott key Memorial Bridge, which carries 695, the Baltimore Beltway, across the river, not the bay. Not only is the key bridge one of the most recognizable sites in the southern Baltimore skyline, its also one of the most dangerous places for an empty tractor-trailer to be on a windy day. For some truckers who are carrying light amounts of hazardous materials on windy days, neither the bridge nor the two tunnels are acceptable means of travelling through Baltimore. For them, the only answer is to travel the opposite direction on the Beltway over land.
Why the sudden interest in tractor trailers, you ask? Well this is just one of the many thoughts I was having on my commute the other day when I passed the hazmat signs for one of the tunnels.
High Winds, Stay Off Bridge
June 11th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tags: Anne Arundel
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1 Jess // Jun 11, 2008 at 10:21 am
The Key Bridge in DC is also named after Francis Scott Key, right? Did he do anything other than write the national anthem? (Not that that’s not an accomplishment, but those are two fairly important bridges, in that one carries the Baltimore Beltway and the other is how we get to Adam’s apartment when we come visit.) Was he from the DC/Maryland area?
2 Chris // Jun 11, 2008 at 11:05 am
Francis Scott Key lived in Georgetown.
3 shelly // Jun 11, 2008 at 11:25 am
“Key was a distant cousin and the namesake of F. Scott Fitzgerald whose full name was Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. ”
thanks, wikipedia!
4 bryan // Jun 12, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Key also once owned the land that one end of the bridge sits on. Additionally, he lived in Frederick, MD wherein a high school is named in his honor.
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