2015

NT1178 : Queensferry Crossing - Southern Approach Viaduct

taken 9 years ago, near to Forth Road Bridge, Edinburgh, Great Britain

Queensferry  Crossing - Southern Approach Viaduct
Queensferry Crossing - Southern Approach Viaduct
From Society Road, Queensferry. Now more or less complete. The ash coppice [left] prevented a full dead centre view. See NT1178 : The Queensferry Crossing - Approach Viaduct Piers for a February view, before the bush had broken into leaf, and before the supports for the unsupported north end had been removed.
The Queensferry Crossing :: NT1280

A rather stilted name for the project to construct a second Forth Road Bridge, as the original [1964] one is wearing out, the Forth Replacement Crossing has now been replaced by the democratically chosen official name. The FRC Bill was approved by the Scottish Parliament in December 2010, and the Bill received Royal Assent in January 2011. Construction began in September 2011 and the bridge is expected to open in 2016, at an estimated cost of £790m. The constructors are Forth Crossing Bridge Constructors [FCBC], a consortium of four companies [Dragados, Hochtief, American Bridge International and Morrison Construction].
Update August 31 2017. Handed over to the Scottish Government on August 28 2017, with an evening light show - more or less finished, late but under budget; opened to traffic on 30 August for two days, then closed to allow around 50000 people to walk across at the weekend [normally, as a motorway, no pedestrians allowed]; to be officially opened by HM Queen Elizabeth II on 4 September 2017; and finally opened for general use on 7 September.


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Geographical Context: Coastal Village, Rural settlement Roads, Road transport Construction, Development Place: Edinburgh Queensferry Primary Subject: Bridge other tags: The Queensferry Crossing Then and Now Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Southern Approach Viaduct [25] · Society Road [22] · Completion [7] ·
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M J Richardson   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Friday, 24 July, 2015   (more nearby)
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Friday, 24 July, 2015
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OSGB36: geotagged! NT 1162 7894 [10m precision]
WGS84: 55:59.7146N 3:25.1096W
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OSGB36: geotagged! NT 1153 7869
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North-northeast (about 22 degrees)
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