Queensferry Crossing. There is also a main-road bridge at Queensferry, Flintshire in Wales.
The Queensferry Crossing (formerly the Forth Replacement Crossing) is a road bridge under construction in Scotland. It is being built alongside the existing Forth Road Bridge across the Firth of Forth, and will connect Lothian, at South Queensferry, to Fife, at North Queensferry. Proposals for a second Forth crossing were first put forward in the 1990s, but it was not until the discovery of structural issues with the Forth Road Bridge in 2005 that plans were moved forward. The decision to proceed with a replacement bridge was taken at the end of 2007, although the following year it was announced that the existing bridge would be retained as a public transport link. The Forth Crossing Act received Royal Assent in January 2011, and construction began in September 2011. Forth Replacement Crossing - Ramboll UK Limited. Firth of Forth, Scotland, UK ¤ This new road bridge linking Edinburgh with the county of Fife, and sitting alongside its illustrious neighbours, the Forth Bridge and the Forth Road Bridge, is now under construction.
When finished it will partially replace the existing Forth Road Bridge which is then planned to become a route for buses and public transport. The bridge, a Transport Scotland project, is the largest bridge project in Northern Europe and the largest civil engineering project in Scotland for a generation. The cable -stayed three tower structure will have two central spans of 650m and two approaching spans of 223m. The towers will rise 207m above high tide sea level, from which will stretch 23,000 miles of stay cabling. Ramboll is the lead partner in the design joint venture which also comprises Grontmij and Leonhart Andra und Partners. Computer generated image of Firth of Forth with the new bridge. - Image - Road Traffic Technology. Forth Replacement Crossing. The Forth Replacement Crossing (FRC) is Scotland’s biggest infrastructure project in a generation.
Transport Scotland and its partners at the Forth Crossing Bridge Constructors consortium are delivering a new bridge - the Queensferry Crossing - as well as the connecting road network. The FRC project ensures the future of an important aspect of Scotland’s transport system and is absolutely vital to ensure Scotland's economic wellbeing. It is providing up to 1,200 job opportunities and a large number of sub contract and supply order opportunities for Scottish companies. The FRC project is currently on track to be delivered in 2016 and will replace the current Forth Road Bridge as the main crossing for cross-Forth traffic. Work on two major aspects of the project - the Fife Intelligent Transport System and M9 Junction 1A - has already been successfully completed. News New world record for Queensferry Crossing Crucial phase of construction work completed on new bridge structure.
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Name the Bridge. Queensferry gets its own crossing - Local Headlines - Linlithgow Journal and Gazette. The new bridge across the Forth will be named, appropriately, the Queensferry Crossing.
The name was officially unveiled this week by First Minister Alex Salmond from the southern landing point at South Queensferry with the new bridge’s three towers rising from the water in the background. Members of the public were invited to name the new bridge. It was Queensferry Crossing which polled 12,039 votes, 35.5 per cent out of more than 37,000 votes cast during a public ballot run over six weeks. Caledonia Bridge narrowly finished second out of five shortlisted choices, with 31.2 per cent of the vote and St Margaret’s Crossing third. New Forth bridge: Queensferry Crossing wins naming contest.
New Forth bridge to be named the Queensferry Crossing after public poll which attracted 37,000 votes. THE bridge will cost up to £1.6bn and will open at the end of 2016, the Scottish Government has said.
THE new bridge over the Firth of Forth is to be called the Queensferry Crossing, the First Minister has revealed. The name received a third of the 37,000 votes in a public poll, beating other options such as Caledonia Bridge, Firth of Forth Crossing, Saltire Crossing and St Margaret's Crossing. Alex Salmond announced the name as he visited South Queensferry to see how construction is progressing. It is due to be opened at the end of 2016 and will cost up to £1.6 billion, the Government said. The Scottish Government launched the "name the bridge" campaign in November last year and 7,600 suggestions were submitted before being whittled down by a panel of judges to the five finalists. Queensferry Crossing received 12,039 votes, with Caledonia Bridge the next most popular with 10,573.
The Queensferry Crossing . . . £1.6bn new bridge named. Queensferry Crossing it is! - Local Headlines. MEMBERS of the public voted in their thousands and a favourite name for the new Forth bridge is finally revealed - as Queensferry Crossing.
At the official announcement yesterday (Wednesday) First Minister Alex Salmond hailed the ‘bridge to the future’ as the ‘Name the Bridge’ results were made public. Pipped at the post were the alternative names Caledonia Bridge and St Margaret’s Crossing. The First Minister said: “The Forth replacement crossing is the country’s biggest and most significant transport infrastructure project for decades and I’m delighted that the naming process has enabled so many thousands of people to get involved and rightly feel a sense of ownership for a bridge that will serve Scotland and its economy for many years to come. “With some 7,600 unique name suggestions received and more than 35,000 votes cast, it is clear that the new crossing has captured people’s imagination.
New Forth bridge is now Queensferry Crossing, as row over project rolls on. It's been the source of political and environmental controversy – rows over foreign steel, political egos and accelerating CO2 emissions from commuters – but now the fifth bridge across the Forth has a name: Queensferry Crossing.
It is the safest and most obvious choice: the new bridge stradles the Firth of Forth alongside the villages of North Queensferry – home of the former prime minister Gordon Brown, and South Queensferry on the opposite shore. The new name was chosen by public ballot: 12,039 (35.5%) people chose it over the close second favourite Caledonia Bridge, which won 10.573 (31.2%) of the vote. Winning an unofficial bronze, with 7,146 (21.1%) votes, was the more historically appropriate but arguably more obscure St Margaret's Crossing – a name which honours the 11th century queen who first introduced the eponymous ferry crossing connecting the northern and southern banks of the Forth.
The Scottish government said today: Describing it as Salmond's folly on 3 May, Harvie said: New Forth bridge named Queensferry Crossing - Transport. WHEN building a new bridge that will carry millions of motorists across the mighty Firth of Forth, it would seem prudent to adopt a safety-first approach.
Yesterday, that approach was extended to its name, when the new Forth Crossing was officially christened the Queensferry Crossing. The name was chosen from a shortlist of five, which had been whittled down from a longlist of 7,600 monikers put forward by the public. A voting panel drew up the shortlist after ruling out the more outlandish suggestions such as Kevin (after Kevin Bridges, the comedian), the Rab C Nes-bridge and Waterway to Go. Archaeologists unearth Stone Age dwelling on the banks the of new Forth crossing - Environment. THE remains of an ancient dwelling believed to be Scotland’s oldest house have been discovered on the banks of the River Forth.
Experts say the Stone Age timber structure – which may have resembled the wigwams constructed by North American Indians – was built more than 10,000 years ago, possibly as a winter retreat, in the period after the last ice age. It was discovered in a field outside the village of Echline, near South Queensferry, during routine archaeological excavations in advance of work on the new Forth Replacement Crossing over the Forth estuary and contained flint arrowheads used by the original occupants. Dated from the mesolithic era, the remains consist of a large oval pit, seven metres long and half a metre deep, with a series of holes which would have held upright wooden posts.
They would have supported walls possibly made from animals skins, although some experts believe there may have been a flatter turf roof.