Riedquat Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Thats OK people can just take the Fifth. That'll be quite a big diversion, if it's a third of the way between the Forth and the Severn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 That'll be quite a big diversion, if it's a third of the way between the Forth and the Severn. Ha ha! I like the bizarre thinking! Are you Armando Ianucchi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccc Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 The way they built it, but in reverse. Start stripping it from the middle and work back towards the shore. You have the job. I will take 10%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybong Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 The Kirkcaldy Devastator must have gone near it on his way to a political rally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porca misèria Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 This has nothing to do with the new bridge being ready in case anyone is interested. Its just a random very unexpected problem that has somehow appeared from nowhere. How that happens - I do not know. I wonder how often these inspections are that found this issue ? Must be a really serious safety and structural concern to close it completely. Its going to be huge for people moving around Scotland. You bu*gers are OK, you get another bridge. TPTB learned nothing when our mainline railway washed out to sea just under two years ago, so we stand to be cut off for months again next time it happens. :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porca misèria Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 OK, will some kindly jock help out a befuddled sassenach? I can't keep count of this story. Is it firth, forth, or fife? It's knocked me for six. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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19 year mortgage 8itch Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 About the only part of England that I've spent much time in that doesn't feel over-dense is Cumbria.Just the folk that are dense then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19 year mortgage 8itch Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 Does anyone know what happens when they finally decide to dismantle it - how the ****** do they go about doing that ? In fact - has a suspension bridge that large ever actually been dismantled before ? Tell the loons in the Commons that IS have been spotted on the bridge and it'll be bombed to smithereens before you can say "and the nays to the left..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 You bu*gers are OK, you get another bridge. TPTB learned nothing when our mainline railway washed out to sea just under two years ago, so we stand to be cut off for months again next time it happens. :angry: The journey from Plymouth to Exeter on the train is a sheer delight that I have enjoyed for decades; if that run along the estuaries and coast goes to be replaced by some bleak exposed crawl alongside Dartmoor then I'm blaming you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riedquat Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 The journey from Plymouth to Exeter on the train is a sheer delight that I have enjoyed for decades; if that run along the estuaries and coast goes to be replaced by some bleak exposed crawl alongside Dartmoor then I'm blaming you. Ditto. I've had enough of people screwing things up out of practicality and economic obsession. It ain't making the world a better place to live in but people are so unable to cope these days when the odd thing goes wrong. "Cut off for months again the next time it happens" - well, it's happened that badly once in well over a century (I know there have been a few smaller incidents too). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Generation Game Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 Due to the recent stormy weather, once again we've lost the defensive shelter that Spurn Head provides. That's nature for you. No amount of flood defences will help. It'll just pass the buck onto some poor blighter down the coast. In a few generations it will all be underwater anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberNat Posted December 5, 2015 Author Share Posted December 5, 2015 OK, will some kindly jock help out a befuddled sassenach? I can't keep count of this story. Is it firth, forth, or fife? It's knocked me for six. The river the bridge crosses is called the The Firth of Forth. Everybody up here tends to just call it the Forth though. Fife is the greatest county in all the world with such treasures as Methil, High Valleyfield, Cowdenbeath, Ballingry, Kirkcaldy and not to forget the glorious Kelty! (Also, St Andrews, North Queensferry, Anstruther, Dunfermline and my hometown of Kincardine). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberNat Posted December 5, 2015 Author Share Posted December 5, 2015 Just to better explain why the bridge closing is such a big deal, here is a map of the diversion that people need to take if they want to travel from Fife to Edinburgh and vice versa. The green line is the now closed route over the bridge. The red line is the diversion: 30,000 cars use the bridge in each direction every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porca misèria Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 Just to better explain why the bridge closing is such a big deal, here is a map of the diversion that people need to take if they want to travel from Fife to Edinburgh and vice versa. The green line is the now closed route over the bridge. The red line is the diversion: Yeah, we've got some situations like that. It's a tortuous way round if they close the Tamar Bridge. News said it's not completely closed: they still allow emergency ambulances. So what about bikes? Could this be an incentive for Edinbug commuters to get on their bikes? Shame it happened in the season of maximum gloom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 When the Severn bridges are closed, Newport is a long way from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BristolBuyer Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 Is it really going to take that long to fix it? I've got a little MIG welder and a bag of bolts from Screwfix, and I'm available next weekend if needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 Yeah, we've got some situations like that. It's a tortuous way round if they close the Tamar Bridge. News said it's not completely closed: they still allow emergency ambulances. So what about bikes? Could this be an incentive for Edinbug commuters to get on their bikes? Shame it happened in the season of maximum gloom. The word on the local cycling forum is "no". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 The commute from Fife today: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberNat Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 It took longer than I thought before the SNP were getting the blame. https://archive.is/uUwNe Yet if it were left to the unionists we would have no new bridge under construction: “Mr. Darling: Do the Government still want to proceed with the building of a second Forth road bridge, which would devastate the constituency that the Minister seeks to represent at the next election? Have the Government changed their tack? Do they now accept that there needs to be a co-ordinated public transport strategy to deal with the transport needs of Edinburgh and south-east Scotland? Will the Minister make the Government’s position clear so that we know whether they want to build this ridiculous bridge?” http://wingsoverscotland.com/the-visionary/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Och! It's an English plot, mon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberNat Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 Och! It's an English plot, mon! No plots involved. Just evidence showing that if we had listened to unionist Labour we would be years and years away from having a replacement crossing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Now Mr McMaka Paka will have to travel by Pinky Ponk, rather than Ninky Nonk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Cavey Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Now Mr McMaka Paka will have to travel by Pinky Ponk, rather than Ninky Nonk. Have you been sniffing the thixofix being used for the repair again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig_ Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Have you been sniffing the thixofix being used for the repair again? I understood every word. I take it you don't have young children? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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