Forth Road Bridge
Coordinates: 56 ° 0 ′ 7 ″ N , 3 ° 24 ′ 15 ″ W.
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| use | Road bridge | |
| Crossing of | Firth of Forth | |
| place | South Queensferry , North Queensferry | |
| construction | Suspension bridge with orthotropic deck slab | |
| overall length | 2517 m | |
| Longest span | 1006 m | |
| start of building | 1958 | |
| completion | 1964 | |
| opening | 04.09.1964 | |
| planner | Freeman Fox & Partners | |
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The Forth Road Bridge is a road bridge over the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh in Scotland . The suspension bridge was built between 1958 and 1964 and was then the largest bridge of its kind in Europe. It is 2,517 meters long and spans the inlet between the towns of North Queensferry and South Queensferry . The bridge consists of a total of almost 47,000 tons of steel, including the steel cables of the structure, which are almost 50,000 kilometers long. The four-lane national road A90 and footpaths and bike paths on both sides run over it.
The British royal couple opened the structure to traffic on September 4, 1964. Before the bridge opened, ferries operated on the route; Most recently, they had to deal with a traffic volume of 600,000 cars, 200,000 trucks and 1.5 million people per year. If you wanted to bypass the ferry, you had to take the long detour over the Kincardine Bridge .
The Forth Road Bridge has been a listed building since April 2001.
On December 15, 2010, the Scottish Parliament decided to build a new bridge over the Firth of Forth with the Queensferry Crossing . The M90 motorway has been running on this bridge over the Firth of Forth since August 30, 2017 .
While the new bridge was still under construction, the old road bridge had to be temporarily closed to all traffic on December 4, 2015 due to structural defects caused by wear and tear. The closure, which also affected pedestrians and cyclists, meant long detours for everyone who could not switch to the rail connections over the parallel railway bridge . The blockade originally planned until New Year's Day 2016 could be lifted again for vehicles up to 7.5 t on December 23, 2015, for heavier vehicles the release took place on February 20, 2016.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Engineering Timelines - Forth Road Bridge. ENGINEERING TIMELINES, accessed January 31, 2016 .
- ↑ History timeline. Amey plc, accessed January 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Scotland opens longest cable-stayed bridge in the world. Spiegel Online, August 30, 2017, accessed August 31, 2017.
- ^ Forth Road Bridge to be closed until new year. BBC, December 4, 2015, accessed January 17, 2016 .