Wes Moore

I was working with a group called Iraq, Afghanistan, Veterans of America who were doing a lot of work on this issue.

The reason that I say that is because I don't think that this is something that people are choosing to go.

I think that if this is... I think a percentage, I agree.

So I'd say that when they said it was going to take 11 months to clear the channel, we got it cleared in 11 weeks.

When they said it was gonna take years to get permitting done, we got it done in months.

When they said it was gonna take literally five to seven years to get a 70% design built, we got it done in 14 months.

This is the fastest moving major project inside of the country.

And people forget that initial bridge, the Francis Scott Key Bridge was initially built, nearly a two mile long bridge.

That from design, permitting, implementation took 12 years, right?

We're talking about now getting this thing done within literally less than half of the time.

And the bridge that we're gonna have to build is gonna have to be a bridge, according to federal guidelines, a bridge that has more safety implementations.

Because what happened that morning,

on March 26th can never happen again.

This is a ship the size of three football fields that slammed into a nearly two mile long bridge and took it down instantaneously.

This is a engineering marvel, what happened.

And you see here where literally the bridge is sitting on top of a ship, right?

We knew, and the thing that I was focused on is I want speed, I want safety, and I want cost savings.

And we've been able to help to deliver on those things.

In fact, just recently when I saw that the people who are the contractors were actually estimating that this was going to be more expensive than what we initially laid out, I fired them.

And now we're going to go through the process.