Forth Road Bridge

[Ben@Forest]

That bridge is only 50 - 60 years old, isn't it?
Like so much modern civil engineering, seems to have been built for form rather than function.
How old is it's neighbour - the rail bridge? they don't build them like that any more

I read a year or so ago I read that a huge number of bridges in the US are failing or structurally unsound - the reason simply being that all that post WW2 infrastructure is coming to the end of its life and even in America they weren't building for the modern level of car use.

[Cycloloco]

Wouldn't you think though they could allow cyclists and pedestrians over it? The emergency services are being allowed to use it.[/quote]

I would hope CTC members in Scotland are arguing for that. It's not the weight of 2-wheelers that causes the damage but the highways people have no imagination. They could allow pedestrians, pedal cyclists and even motorcyclists to use the bridge as normal. Apart from getting more people to use 2 wheels the car drivers would be quite happy to not have 2-wheelers weaving round them as they queue for another bridge.

What happens if cyclists ignore the restriction and just go under/over/round the barriers? Are the police going to keep an officer at each end of the bridge all day every day? Time for cyclists to try it.

[Paulatic]

FRB answered a tweet today asking. Not my tweet I must add.

[kylecycler]

I was wondering if he was wearing a life jacket, then I thought...

[Mick F]

Back in the days when we lived there, me and Daughter1 went for a walk down under the northern end of the Forth Rail Bridge at North Queensferry. D1 was maybe two, so it could have been 1977.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@56.00754 ... 312!8i6656

There's a jetty there, and as we walked down to the water's edge, we saw a fast motorised rubber boat speeding across the river towards us. The two chaps hopped out and I noticed they had "International Rescue" sort of uniforms but with an Intercity logo on their forage caps.

Chatting to them, I found out that they were British Rail Rescue and they patrolled the river underneath both bridges when they were being worked on ........................ just in case someone fell.

Dunno if they still have a BRR service. No doubt it's been privatised now.

[Paulatic]

Looks like they took my advice [emoji1][emoji1]
This is the solution from AMEY

[bogmyrtle]

Looks like they took my advice [emoji1][emoji1]
This is the solution from AMEY

I laughed when I heard that on the news. Clearly you are psychic.

[Ron]

There aren't any bridges anywhere being built like it again anywhere.

Everything moves on, they don't shoe horses like they used to 50 years ago.

[Paulatic]

Great pics here of work in progress.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tds9lhHdv ... outu.be&a=

[Mick F]

There aren't any bridges anywhere being built like it again anywhere.

Everything moves on, they don't shoe horses like they used to 50 years ago.

Of course, but it's the basic design that's wrong, not the materials or the building of it or the fact that it's old.

It was expected that the FRB would fail when it turned out that all the other one's like it had.

Sorry, can't remember what the basic flaw is in the design.

[Ron]

I would hope CTC members in Scotland are arguing for that.

I would have hoped Paul Tuohy would have been speaking to the "contacts in government" he refers to in the Oct/Nov issue of 'Cycle' magazine.

[vjosullivan]

There aren't any bridges anywhere being built like it again anywhere.

Everything moves on, they don't shoe horses like they used to 50 years ago.

Didn't that used to be a film about dance marathons?

[Ron]

FRB re-opening tomorrow Wed. 23rd for all traffic except HGVs..