Scotland- Forth Road Bridge closed until New Year!

After taking some abuse from the inhabitants of Edinburgh the Fifers got their own back by reminding them that the Amazon warehouse was on the Fife side of the bridge :rofl:
 
Tomorrow morning will be interesting. Stagecoach have kindly put on an additional 33 busses.... and will be running them all through Kincardine. An already heavily congested route that had 11 mile tailbacks on Friday...now 33 additional busses to add to it. I applaud the genius.
 
The whole situation is a farce. The main A route has been closed to cars and vans and reserved for busses and HGVs leaving the much heavier car and van traffic to be routed along B and C roads and villages that cant cope.
I managed 3 miles of my 17 mile journey in 94 minutes before giving up and turning back.
Traffic Scotland and the local authorities have made a complete [expletive deleted] of this.
All done in the name of making it easier to get to Edinburgh with no thought to those that dont work anywhere near Edinburgh and these roads are thier usual route.
The luntics have most definitely taken over the asylum.
 
Speculation today that the official timescale for fixing the bridge is a tad unrealistic and even that it might NEVER reopen to HGVs.

All in all, not good!
 
FairwayDodger said:
Speculation today that the official timescale for fixing the bridge is a tad unrealistic and even that it might NEVER reopen to HGVs.

All in all, not good!
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A story that seems to have eminated from that bastian of reliable reporting, The Daily Record. The days of the bridge carrying the loads it has have been numbered for a while, hence the second crossing being built.
To be honest, getting cars, vans and to an extent, busses back using the bridge while re-routing HGVs only would massively inprove the situ. Ok so thats a few weeks off as it stands. The bridge can be fixed, if they can weld Oil Platform support beams back together under the sea at extremes of temperature and pressure then I am sure its not beyond the means of smart people to fix a cracked (but metal) bridge truss end connections.
The weather is the biggest obstacle at present I understand.
 
Travelling up from the northeast tomorrow. Will go across to the M74, up towards G'gow, then across past Stirling and onto Aberdeen.... sound about right??
 
FairwayDodger said:
Meanwhile traffic at the Gyle in Edinburgh seems much better than usual..... Winners and losers..... No need to rush the bridge repair!

:)
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Aha yes traffic on the bypass both this morning and this evening was noticeably lighter than the usual Monday jam. Never twigged until you mentioned it why!
 
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