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MCN
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PostPosted: 19:23 - 05 Dec 2015    Post subject: Forth Road Bridge Closure Reply with quote
2cm wide 'Hairline Crack'?

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/pictures-2cm-crack-shut-forth-6956428


Some thick hair used as comparison.

Bludy tabloid hacks. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 19:33 - 05 Dec 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Also the number of vehicles that cross the road every day seems to be going up by 5000 every 12 hours.
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PostPosted: 22:10 - 05 Dec 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
A tube of gripfill will sort it!
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PostPosted: 23:55 - 05 Dec 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
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A tube of gripfill will sort it!


Might as well, Magneto couldn't keep the thing from falling apart.
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PostPosted: 00:46 - 06 Dec 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Who ya gonna call?

https://i.imgur.com/9pgMUPk.jpg

That is properly bad news for the East Coast Massive, and it'll snarl up Falkirk as well.

I wouldn't be entirely astonished if a thorough inspection reveals so many issues that it never re-opens.
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PostPosted: 13:52 - 06 Dec 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
What's taking the time is they've got a guy going up there every day for a week to soak it in plusgas before they try to undo the bolts. Meanwhile the rest of the crew are looking for their 13mm socket.
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PostPosted: 15:34 - 06 Dec 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rogerborg wrote:




That is properly bad news for the East Coast Massive, and it'll snarl up Falkirk as well.



And stirling, kincardine, alloa....... the traffic was a pisstake on friday.
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PostPosted: 15:47 - 06 Dec 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
This wouldn't have happened if they went independent.

When's the next vote?
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PostPosted: 16:53 - 06 Dec 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
lihp wrote:
This wouldn't have happened if they went independent.

Sure, we'd have sold it for scrap by now in order to fund that "haggis in every pot" promise.
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PostPosted: 17:31 - 06 Dec 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
I was thinking, 'Awwww... the poor Fifers'. Very Happy
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PostPosted: 17:37 - 06 Dec 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Why don't they just build a fifth?
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PostPosted: 17:51 - 06 Dec 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
WD Forte wrote:
Why don't they just build a fifth?


They're going forth and building a forth forth one over the forth at the moment.
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PostPosted: 18:14 - 06 Dec 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well I suppose they're forthed to now, what with this one falling apart
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PostPosted: 18:20 - 06 Dec 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
WD Forte wrote:
Well I suppose they're forthed to now, what with this one falling apart



Thpelled with an Eathst Coathst Lithsp?
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PostPosted: 23:15 - 06 Dec 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Aren't there 3 other bridges though? (Not a Fo[u]rth Bridge Joke)
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PostPosted: 10:28 - 07 Dec 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Aren't there 3 other bridges though? (Not a Fo[u]rth Bridge Joke)


Two other road bridges (Clackmannan and Kincardine) and a (THE) rail bridge.

The road bridges are geographically located in an akward place though. Much further up the river. If you want to head North from Edinburgh, you'd have to do two sides of a triangle to use them. It was always a diversion when the Forth road bridge was closed due to high winds but it takes you a long way out of your way.

The roads also don't have the capacity to carry the volume of traffic. A new crossing is under construction because there was too much traffic for the current bridges anyway.

Going from Edinburgh City Bypass to Perth, by the Forth Bridge is 37 miles of Motorway.

By the Clackmannan Bridge is 60 miles of mixed motorway and A-road.
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PostPosted: 12:41 - 07 Dec 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
The Forth Bridge

If you've time.
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