Queensferry crossing

[grober]

The name for the new bridge across the river Forth has just been announced as the Queensferry Crossing or as some wit put it "May the Forth be with you"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-23047293

 

[BAZZER1]

I think there is already a Queens Ferry Bridge near Sheerness in Kent
BAZZER1

 

[Dryce]

I wouldn't have gone with this option as the bridge is the furthest of the three from the North and South Queensferry. And calling it 'crossing' as opposed to 'bridge' makes it seem quite a mouthful.

I would have called it the Fife Bridge.

 

[Ted]

That's the firtht time I've seen that.

 

[Londonscottish]

That's the firtht time I've seen that.

Reminds me of East Fife 4 Forfar 5.

 

[grober]

At least it would appear a bit of it will be "Made in Scotland from Girders" to quote the Irn Bru advert. The TATA owned Cleveland Bridge company in Motherwell are now scheduled to make some steel for it it after a Spanish company pulled out. [ no euros for the gas meter?]
Scots steel workers will help build the new Forth road bridge despite earlier snub - Daily Record

 

[moonloops]

Just one more bridge to blow up if the folks in scotchland get their independence !

 

[grober]

Then we would have to build another one which could be the Fourth Forth Bridge .

 

[Palfrem]

Is this a toll bridge? If so, how much is the toll?

 

[LTD]

Is this a toll bridge? If so, how much is the toll?

No tolls on any bridge in Scotland.

 

[grober]

No tolls on any bridge in Scotland.

Some say it all started with Robbie the Pict? BBC NEWS | Scotland | Tolls removed from Scots bridges

 

[BAZZER1]

Is that Tolls or Trolls
BAZZER1

 

[Druk]

Then we would have to build another one which could be the Fourth Forth Bridge .

There's already a fourth Forth Bridge if you count the ones at Kincardine. It would have to be the Fifth Forth Bridge.

They should have called it The Independence Bridge. No-one will want to cross it.

Which reminds me of an Irish pundit a few years back who said..."they should re-name the Shankhill Rd the Independence Rd. The b******s won't want to march down that" Thought that was funny.



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[Tiff]

Ach, bring back the hovercraft fae Kirkcaldy

 

[Dryce]

No tolls on any bridge in Scotland.

As always the Scots have it sorted perfectly.

No tolls. Frozen council tax.

Hooray.

Except we've got so used to how appallingly cr*p our roads are now that we don't realise how shockingly bad they now are.

So yes. Nice one Scottish politicians. Bankroll a new crossing - while leaving the existing infrastructure to decline and atrophy due to institutionalised neglect.

 

[SilverSaloon]

should of been a tunnel

 

[Druk]

should of been a tunnel

Correct.


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[grober]

Tunnel might have been the better long term proposition but would have been more expensive and importantly taken longer to build. Perhaps if the decision were to be taken now it might have been different, but at the time the long term future of the original 1964 road bridge was in considerable doubt. http://www.forthroadbridge.org/sites/default/files/documents/firstinsp.pdf The dehumidification and drying techniques of the main cables as used in the Honshu Shikoku suspension bridges in Japan in hindsight appear to have been more effective than initially thought but at the time the worst case scenario might have had huge implications for the economic development of the area had the deterioration of the bridge not been slowed or halted by these techniques . Queensferry Crossing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia