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Showing Original Post only (View all)Poll: Are tugboats infrastructure? [View all]
Based on the lack of tugboat regulations and reduction of tugboats on Baltimore's inner harbor and turning basin.
Compared to bridge disasters and the rebuilding costs, tugboats are inexpensive.
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Yes | |
11 (52%) |
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No | |
1 (5%) |
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Never considered it | |
7 (33%) |
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Tugboats schmugboats, who needs 'em | |
0 (0%) |
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I don't know what a tugboat does | |
0 (0%) |
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Tugboats are too expensive | |
0 (0%) |
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Tugboats are a librul plot by Chi-Coms and radical leftists | |
2 (10%) |
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Not to mention that at some point you will have made the port too expensive to use..
EX500rider
Mar 2024
#20
I was thinking that from baltimore to the end of the channels it must be about that
getagrip_already
Mar 2024
#25
Generally the Harbor Pilot comes out on the Pilot Boat and the tugs come later
EX500rider
Mar 2024
#17
The bigger question is why more States didn't add bridge support protection after the Sunshine Skyway event in 1980
EX500rider
Mar 2024
#4
Are those things out in the water bollards to stop a huge freight vessel?
pinkstarburst
Mar 2024
#11
It's not obvious that a tug could have stopped the forward motion of a cargo carrier
brooklynite
Mar 2024
#22