Forth Road Bridge

56.001986111111 - 3.4042361111111Koordinaten: 56 ° 0 ' 7.2 "N, 3 ° 24' 15.3 " W

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Firth of Forth

The Forth Road Bridge is a motorway bridge over the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh in Scotland. The suspension bridge was built in 1958-1964 and was the largest bridge of its kind in Europe. It is over 2.5 kilometers long and spans the estuary between the towns of North Queensferry and South Queensferry. The bridge consists of a total of almost 47,000 tons of steel, it included almost 50,000 kilometers of cables along the structure.

The British royal couple announced on September 4, released in 1964, the building to traffic. Before the opening of the bridge wrong ferries on the route, at last they had a traffic volume of 600,000 cars, 200,000 trucks and 1.5 million people to deal with each year. Who would want to drive around the ferry, had to take the long detour over the Kincardine Bridge in purchasing.

Since April 2001, the Forth Road Bridge is a listed building.

On 15 December 2010, the Scottish Parliament has decided to build a new bridge over the Firth of Forth. The current bridge has to be closed as early as 2017 for some of the traffic due to structural damage to the supporting cables may. However, the existing bridge will remain passable for buses, taxis and cyclists, and therefore not to be demolished.