General Discussion

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260402-trump-announces-destruction-of-iran-s-tallest-bridge

The B1 bridge, which was still under construction, is the Middle East's tallest according to Fars/Iranian media, with a 447-foot (136-meter) column.

Then there's the arch-fascist "the Guardian"--ooh, they're the guards?!--

The US president shared footage of part of the newly built 136 metre-high $400m B1 suspension bridge between Tehran and Karaj collapsing dramatically on to the causeway below amid a rising plume of black smoke. ...
It was not clear if the bridge was being used by civilians at the time, though there appeared to be a lorry on one side of the bridge. One video appeared to show a projectile hitting the span where there was already damage.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/02/trump-warns-tehran-more-to-follow-after-strike-destroys-irans-largest-bridge

I was a teen when the Scott Key Bridge was 'under construction' and large-ish stretches of 695 were still "under construction." (And froze in a kind of shock when I heard of it's collapse. Just a bit too personal. My first girlfriend's 'career' was spent at that bridge, from age 18 or 19 until disability because of a genetic condition that killed her in 5/20. Hard to emotionally completely let go of first girlfriend, and spent many a hour talking with her sister after that.)

For months my BFF would bike both NE up 695 and over the Key Bridge. It was great. Miles, as fast as you could pedal--'under construction' maybe some places, but it was months that we had a 3-lane, 2 directions, 'bike path' for cars at our disposal. Yeah, from time to time some cop would sidle on by, looking at us and sometimes frowning, sometimes grinning. Or the teenage boy that would bypass the 'road closed' barricade because they knew they had miles and miles of unimpeded primo highway with 0 law and 0 traffic.)

Keep that in mind. For months the Scott Key Bridge was entirely usable but because on the Anne Arundel side there was some hiccup, or maybe some part hadn't passed the myriad of inspections and checks required at the city, county, state, federal levels it was still officially 'under construction.' Yet police could use it. And bicyclists. And teen boys in Mustangs and TransAms. Please, tell me that in case of war the US military would be unable to use it. C'mon.

Oh, the very-much non-fascist The Guardian as pictures. Then again, they're apparently, I'm told by a recent source, that they're "sloppy" in their reporting.