AlonPedestrian Observations: The United States Has Too Few Road Tunnels https://pedestrianobservations.com/2024/03/29/the-united-states-has-too-few-road-tunnels/
Garrett Wollman@Alon It seems likely to me that the Key Bridge will be replaced with another bridge with a somewhat broader main span, likely a different design.
@Alon (American highway engineers had, until recently, an unjustified aversion to cable-stayed bridges, which would be more resilient and easier to construct than a giant truss like the collapsed Key Bridge main span, but the public is also overly sentimental so I wouldn't be surprised to see them try to copy the old design but with piers farther removed from the edges of the shipping channel.)
@wollman (Why did American engineers dislike cable-stayed bridges?)
@Alon I do not know. It seems silly, considering how many were built in Europe during the immediate post-war reconstruction, but US engineers basically did not consider them until the 1980s. The Clark Bridge (1994, IL-MO) is the best known of the new cable-stayed bridges and the first really significant one; its construction was featured in a mid-90s NOVA episode, "Super Bridge". The Zakim Bridge in Boston was being designed about the same time.