The bridgemaster has his motorised blinkers firmly in place, then
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Forth Road Bridge corrosion is being slowed down
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Posted 10 years ago #
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Spokes CycleCampaign (@SpokesLothian)
10/03/2014 10:04
If @forthroadbridge closed 3 years, no ped/cycle crossing of #ForthEstuary http://www.spokes.org.uk/wordpress/documents/members-campaigning/edinburgh/a90-forth-bridge/#s4 @CyclingEdin @keithirving1 @AlastairDalton"
Posted 10 years ago # -
Does it follow that replacing the main deck would require closing both bike paths?
(For some reason I think it would be very scary cycling across if the car deck wasn't there).
Posted 10 years ago # -
No need to panic - Letter from the Bridgemaster to the editor of Scotland on Sunday:
"Sir,
I write to put the record straight following the highly misleading article that appeared in Scotland on Sunday on 9 March 2014 (Call to Rebuild Forth Road Bridge to Carry More Traffic).
The article states that “plans have been revealed” to replace the deck of the Forth Road Bridge, however this is simply not true.
A rolling 15-year programme of major projects to strengthen and improve the bridge's structure and replace major components is set out in the Bridge Authority's long-term Capital Plan. No project to replace the deck of the Forth Road Bridge has ever appeared in this plan and nobody is proposing that such a project be undertaken now or in the future.
The story is very loosely based on a second-hand account of remarks made at a lecture at which the journalist who wrote the article was not even present.
My comments on the possibility of replacing the deck were entirely hypothetical. This was stressed at the meeting, so it is regrettable that the article suggested otherwise.
Yours faithfully
Barry R Colford
Chief Engineer and Bridgemaster"http://www.feta.gov.uk/news/chief-engineers-response-scotland-sunday-article
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Ah well, just imagine all the extra exercise we'll get diverting via Kincardine...
I don't think it will happen though, at least not for a while - and I've just seen that the bridgemaster has criticised the EEN - "I write to put the record straight following the highly misleading article that appeared in Scotland on Sunday on 9 March 2014"...yada yada...
I also don't think that there's enough money to pay for it...unless they shelve a lot of other transport projects.
Ah.
Posted 10 years ago # -
@morningsider
i was musing on the way home there on what the likelihood was that the bridgemaster had been badly misquoted by the media...
its a relief to find that to be true
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