Forth Road Bridge to be closed until 2016
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Starry Wisdom
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heinous seamus
Perfect in an empty room
If we shut off the Tay and Kincardine Bridges and build a big wall from Stirling to Perth we could cut off the Kingdom completely.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
yeh but if we do that explicitly then there'll be an outcry. if we hide it behind 'structural faults' and so on then it can proceed quite nicely.
gosub
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its an odd one, did a structural survey a decade back and it was fucked, hence they came up with the Queen Elizabeth the First (or Second) Third Forth bridge, then while they building that a second survey found the original bridge to be ok. I think the first survey had a differant reason for it being fucked. Odd it took 3 surveys to find this problem, just in time to make people relieved the QE1234 is nearly ready.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
It's the Queen Elizabeth the First or Second Third or Fifth Forth road bridge. Or to give it its full name the Queen Elizabeth the First or Second Third or Fifth Firth of Forth road bridge.
apparently there is another road bridge further along somewhere.
gosub
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thats miles away, upstream near falkirk
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
There's two at Kincardine - the old and somewhat decrepit Kincardine bridge, and the modern Clackmannanshire Bridge. Both of those two have been skirting with getting closed to high-sided vehicles tonight due to strong winds. The next river crossings are all even further upstream at Stirling. This is my neck of the woods, and traffic has been fucking chaos all day.
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
The bridge is surveyed a bit more often than that. The crack that was discovered this week wasn't there in May, apparently. The first survey you mention I think was the one that raised concerns about the state of the cables supporting the deck.
The bridge was never expected to handle the volume of traffic that it has done, mind you. Looks like the replacement has been nicely timed.
heinous seamus
Perfect in an empty room
From Facebook:
TRAFFIC SCOTLAND. FORTH ROAD BRIDGE CLOSURE TRAVEL PLAN. PLEASE SHARE.
This diversion for cars and light vehicles travelling between Fife and Edinburgh has been prepared to minimise the disruption to people and businesses across the east of Scotland during the closure of the Forth Road Bridge.
From the M90 south take the A823 before Rosyth and follow Queensferry Road to Dunfermline town centre. Follow diversion signs to the A907 and take the B913 at Gowkhall to the B914 at Saline and take Bridge Street north. Then take the B906 to the B907 to the B654 to B7077, and follow the signs to the C3P0 and on to the R2D2. About 3 miles further on you’ll come to a road block, ignore this and carry on. When you reach a white farmhouse on your left you should retrace the road back for 400 yards then take the third road on the left, then the second road on right, followed by the fourteenth road on left. Carry along the single track road until you reach the A91 and follow this to the Park and Ride scheme at Kinross. Buses are running every 3 hours between here and the Park and Ride scheme running between Cupar and Methil from where you should be able to hitch a lift to Anstruther. Proceed to the Smugglers Inn and ask for Big Alex. He will give you a letter of introduction to a the captain of the paddle-steamer the PS Skibladner heading for Trondheim in Norway on the morning tide. During the night you must get him inebriated and during a game of cards persuade him to drop you off in St Andrews, from where a Park and Pogostick scheme is in operation back to Cupar. Make your way to the car park at the back of Argos where you’ll be asked a riddle by a mysterious old crone. Answer correctly and you will be allowed to take the A914 south to Kettlebridge (answer incorrectly and you’ll be banished to the treacherous B940 east to Pitscottie). From here you should dismount and take the ancient right-of-way across the Lomond Hills to Ballingry. Take care not to stray from the path for the moors are no place for inexperienced commuters. In Ballingry you will need to have your papers forged and convince the border guards that you are but a simple onion seller on your way to market in Comrie. Here a Park and Glider scheme is in operation to take commuters to a Park and Kayak scheme running between Culross and Grangemouth, from where there is a Park and Walk scheme in operation between here and Edinburgh.
TRAFFIC SCOTLAND. FORTH ROAD BRIDGE CLOSURE TRAVEL PLAN. PLEASE SHARE.
This diversion for cars and light vehicles travelling between Fife and Edinburgh has been prepared to minimise the disruption to people and businesses across the east of Scotland during the closure of the Forth Road Bridge.
From the M90 south take the A823 before Rosyth and follow Queensferry Road to Dunfermline town centre. Follow diversion signs to the A907 and take the B913 at Gowkhall to the B914 at Saline and take Bridge Street north. Then take the B906 to the B907 to the B654 to B7077, and follow the signs to the C3P0 and on to the R2D2. About 3 miles further on you’ll come to a road block, ignore this and carry on. When you reach a white farmhouse on your left you should retrace the road back for 400 yards then take the third road on the left, then the second road on right, followed by the fourteenth road on left. Carry along the single track road until you reach the A91 and follow this to the Park and Ride scheme at Kinross. Buses are running every 3 hours between here and the Park and Ride scheme running between Cupar and Methil from where you should be able to hitch a lift to Anstruther. Proceed to the Smugglers Inn and ask for Big Alex. He will give you a letter of introduction to a the captain of the paddle-steamer the PS Skibladner heading for Trondheim in Norway on the morning tide. During the night you must get him inebriated and during a game of cards persuade him to drop you off in St Andrews, from where a Park and Pogostick scheme is in operation back to Cupar. Make your way to the car park at the back of Argos where you’ll be asked a riddle by a mysterious old crone. Answer correctly and you will be allowed to take the A914 south to Kettlebridge (answer incorrectly and you’ll be banished to the treacherous B940 east to Pitscottie). From here you should dismount and take the ancient right-of-way across the Lomond Hills to Ballingry. Take care not to stray from the path for the moors are no place for inexperienced commuters. In Ballingry you will need to have your papers forged and convince the border guards that you are but a simple onion seller on your way to market in Comrie. Here a Park and Glider scheme is in operation to take commuters to a Park and Kayak scheme running between Culross and Grangemouth, from where there is a Park and Walk scheme in operation between here and Edinburgh.
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