The last exit on I-695 in Baltimore County that you have to take before the closed Francis Scott Key Bridge. Photo by John Lee/WYPR.
The last exit on I-695 in Baltimore County that you have to take before the closed Francis Scott Key Bridge. Photo by John Lee/WYPR.

One year later, people who live and work east of Baltimore are adjusting to an interstate broken at the water’s edge.

With the Francis Scott Key Bridge gone, they say they have lost a vital connection to the world.

Drive I-695 in Eastern Baltimore County towards what was once the Key Bridge and traffic falls away with each exit. Congressman Johnny Olszewski, who grew up in Dundalk, said there is a strange stillness.

Read more (and listen) at WYPR.