New Forth replacement crossing.

Adam Mint wrote:

I'm angusjim wrote:

Campbell Brodie wrote:Don't know what Liz is coming for anyway...wee Nicola's already opened it last week.

Why did they use the Kranky's tribute act instead of the real thing

Annie disappeared to Benidorm this morning, so when I seen an old episode of Benidorm scheduled for tonight's tv I think I'll watch that,,, guess who made an appearance...

Nicola 

Thought they were potted heid

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-41179548



Be interesting to see if this gets any better, morning rush hour heading south and evening rush hour heading north have allways been a nightmare with the bridge/road infrastructure unable to handle it, and basically the new bridge is two lane carriageway each way same as old bridge, so all that same traffic (minus the odd bus and taxi which will still use the old bridge) will be getting filtered down in to two lanes same as before to cross the bridge,,, only difference it is new bridge is planned to be motorway so 70mph speed limit when fully operational, but with heavy goods vehicles restricted 56mph and only two lanes how much difference will that make...

So will the new road infrastructure do its job of filtering the many routes heading to the bridge down in to two lanes successfully ???


£1.35 billion,,, mmmm, well I suppose at least the cables ain't going ping,,, yet...

Went over it twice today, crawling at 08:45am and OK ish at 11:00am coming back.

thought you were based in Stirling?

Yip, Stirling via new bridge it would seem...

3rdforum wrote:thought you were based in Stirling?

Both survey officers in the East are on A/L, I'm covering for them...

Liar...

Adam Mint wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-41179548



Be interesting to see if this gets any better, morning rush hour heading south and evening rush hour heading north have allways been a nightmare with the bridge/road infrastructure unable to handle it, and basically the new bridge is two lane carriageway each way same as old bridge, so all that same traffic (minus the odd bus and taxi which will still use the old bridge) will be getting filtered down in to two lanes same as before to cross the bridge,,, only difference it is new bridge is planned to be motorway so 70mph speed limit when fully operational, but with heavy goods vehicles restricted 56mph and only two lanes how much difference will that make...

So will the new road infrastructure do its job of filtering the many routes heading to the bridge down in to two lanes successfully ???


£1.35 billion,,, mmmm, well I suppose at least the cables ain't going ping,,, yet...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-41179548

Told ya so  ...

can you still walk across the old bridge?

That's 4 times I've benn over the bridge now...boring.

What was traffic flow like...

Pretty crap and it's due to the close proximity to the bridge of the South Queensferry slip road and on the other side the Inverkeithing slip road...cars on the inside lane have to slow to let them merge.

Much as I'm saying in post 53 then,,, same as, same as...

It's going to be fum when they make it a motorway and they're trying to merge at 70mph!

Bit like Eddie Stobart, same as his trucks he never exceeded 56...

Adam Mint wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-41179548



Be interesting to see if this gets any better, morning rush hour heading south and evening rush hour heading north have allways been a nightmare with the bridge/road infrastructure unable to handle it, and basically the new bridge is two lane carriageway each way same as old bridge, so all that same traffic (minus the odd bus and taxi which will still use the old bridge) will be getting filtered down in to two lanes same as before to cross the bridge,,, only difference it is new bridge is planned to be motorway so 70mph speed limit when fully operational, but with heavy goods vehicles restricted 56mph and only two lanes how much difference will that make...

So will the new road infrastructure do its job of filtering the many routes heading to the bridge down in to two lanes successfully ???


£1.35 billion,,, mmmm, well I suppose at least the cables ain't going ping,,, yet...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-41223808

Ah, it's a "Tourist Boom"...

Yip, them pesky tourists just love viewing it at peak travel times, especially getting up early in the morning to do it...

Adam Mint wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-41179548



Be interesting to see if this gets any better, morning rush hour heading south and evening rush hour heading north have allways been a nightmare with the bridge/road infrastructure unable to handle it, and basically the new bridge is two lane carriageway each way same as old bridge, so all that same traffic (minus the odd bus and taxi which will still use the old bridge) will be getting filtered down in to two lanes same as before to cross the bridge,,, only difference it is new bridge is planned to be motorway so 70mph speed limit when fully operational, but with heavy goods vehicles restricted 56mph and only two lanes how much difference will that make...

So will the new road infrastructure do its job of filtering the many routes heading to the bridge down in to two lanes successfully ???


£1.35 billion,,, mmmm, well I suppose at least the cables ain't going ping,,, yet...

Adam Mint wrote:

Adam Mint wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-41179548



Be interesting to see if this gets any better, morning rush hour heading south and evening rush hour heading north have allways been a nightmare with the bridge/road infrastructure unable to handle it, and basically the new bridge is two lane carriageway each way same as old bridge, so all that same traffic (minus the odd bus and taxi which will still use the old bridge) will be getting filtered down in to two lanes same as before to cross the bridge,,, only difference it is new bridge is planned to be motorway so 70mph speed limit when fully operational, but with heavy goods vehicles restricted 56mph and only two lanes how much difference will that make...

So will the new road infrastructure do its job of filtering the many routes heading to the bridge down in to two lanes successfully ???


£1.35 billion,,, mmmm, well I suppose at least the cables ain't going ping,,, yet...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-41179548

Told ya so  ...

Adam Mint wrote:

Adam Mint wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-41179548



Be interesting to see if this gets any better, morning rush hour heading south and evening rush hour heading north have allways been a nightmare with the bridge/road infrastructure unable to handle it, and basically the new bridge is two lane carriageway each way same as old bridge, so all that same traffic (minus the odd bus and taxi which will still use the old bridge) will be getting filtered down in to two lanes same as before to cross the bridge,,, only difference it is new bridge is planned to be motorway so 70mph speed limit when fully operational, but with heavy goods vehicles restricted 56mph and only two lanes how much difference will that make...

So will the new road infrastructure do its job of filtering the many routes heading to the bridge down in to two lanes successfully ???


£1.35 billion,,, mmmm, well I suppose at least the cables ain't going ping,,, yet...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-41223808

Ah, it's a "Tourist Boom"...

Yip, them pesky tourists just love viewing it at peak travel times, especially getting up early in the morning to do it...

Ah, would seem things are returning to usual, Oh, usual was shit traffic jams...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-41594788

Extract from article:-

Congestion has affected both sides of the new £1.35bn bridge across the Forth since its opening, with performance being monitored closely by Traffic Scotland, Amey and Transport Scotland.

'Under review'

Transport Scotland said that while journey times were returning to "more usual levels" the new arrangements were "still bedding in and are being kept under review".

would the new bridge not suffer from the same traffic problems as the old one if the same amount of traffic is crossing??

Just give me a minute to find something hard to hit my head off...

Adam Mint wrote:Waste of feckin money, it’s the roads infrastructure that’s wrong, but what do I know...



The first one’s over a hundered years old and they aint gonna knock down the second one, why ! because there’s feck all wrong with it (ping)...



Politics and twats, all much the same, a load of stupid c.........................................



Oh, and as for a name “The Road To Nowhere”,,, Fife.....

My first post on this thread 28th November 2012,,, five years ago...

The new bridge is a replacement. It's only there to replace the failing old bridge. Any problems that were there before will still be there...

Yeah, but I predicted five years ago it was a waste of money and would not solve the congestion issue, surely when your spending £1.35 billion you get it right,,, I wonder how much was spent on consultants fees,,, if I could predict it wasn't gonna help matters how come the so called experts couldn't...