http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-34469042
Oh well...need to wait a while coming home then!
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FRB CLOSED today 4pm - 6pm
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Posted 8 years ago #
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it's saying "from 6pm" now so get skates on!
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"It was initially announced that the bridges would close at 16:00. This later changed to 18:00 before subsequently being confirmed for 16"
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Posted 8 years ago #
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Police Scotland later announced that they had been asked to organise a mass drinking event at the Diageo plant in Leven but declined, stating they didn't have the organisational capabilities to do so.
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It is understood potentially-explosive material from a old demolition site dating back to the 1960s was uncovered as part of the junction overhaul, where roads from the Forth Road Bridge and new Queensferry Crossing will meet.
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Posted 8 years ago # -
deckard122 very funny; but a bit harsh on Police Scotland I feel. They won't have been doing the exploding of stuff (that's not their thing) but will have just been doing the closing roads and dealing with the public (which is their thing).
Its obvious that the explosives people wanted this dealt with as fast as they possibly could; so if the experts said "We think we'll probably do X" but then later said "Now we've been on site and seen it we're actually going to do Y" that isn't really Police Scotland's fault.
Posted 8 years ago # -
"Spark" chaos. Ahaha. Ha.
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From comments I saw on Social Media I believe the world was about to end because of this, and the powers that be had deliberately chosen the busiest time to carry out the explosion in order to ruin the days of everyone... Did I just not notice the world ending? Am I in a Matrix style glitch?
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"Did I just not notice the world ending?"
You were too busy chasing the Aurora.
It's a sign.
We're all doomed.
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verily, the end is nigh !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Moon_Prophecy
will *you* let them immanentize the eschaton ?
Posted 8 years ago # -
The grumble I had about yesterday was the chopping and changing. One minute they were closing from 4 to 6, the next they said 6 to 8 and then once everyone was on the bus/train/sole occupancy box they went ahead and closed it just before 5.
I really don't care if they have to close the bridge, they could have it all night if they had to for safety as far as I'm concerned. It would have been inconvenient but understandable but to keep chopping and changing was crazy.
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I suspect once the Army unit had arrived and had a wee look, they said NOW, and the Police just did what they were told after that.
Police were probably just trying to avoid the inevitable, due to a peak closure.
Although, they did forget to close the estuary, as boats were still going under the FRB - oops.
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No risk to the estuary. The wires were beside the slip road north of St Margaret's Hope.
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So why shut the rail bridge too?
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Couldn't have rail travellers getting one over on "the hard pressed motorist"?
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I assume because the approach viaduct to the north passes within 100m or so of the blast site and with the trains being high up they are quite exposed. If something bigger had gone pop it could have destabilised a passing train. Although why they couldn't have done the controlled explosion while there was nothing scheduled to be between Inverkeithing and North Queensferry is less clear.
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