Forth Road Brig

Forth Road Brig
Forth Road Brig
	The Forth Road Brig, Edinburgh, Scotland
Coordinates	56°0′3.329″N 3°24′14.87″W / 56.00092472°N 3.4041306°WCoordinates: 56°0′3.329″N 3°24′14.87″W / 56.00092472°N 3.4041306°W
Carries	Motor vehicles; (A90 road); Cyclists; (National Cycle Route 1); Pedestrians
Crosses	Firth o Forth
Locale	Edinburgh, Inchgarvie an Fife, Scotland
Offeecial name	Forth Road Brig
Mainteened bi	Forth Estuary Transport Authority
Chairacteristics
Design	Suspension brig
Tot lenth	2,512 metre (8,241 ft)
Width	33 m (108 ft) Dual twa-lane carriageway, twa cycle/fitpaths
Langest span	1,006 metre (3,301 ft)
Clearance ablo	44.3 m (145 ft)
History
Constructit bi	Sir William Arrol & Co., Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company an Dorman Long
Opened	4 September 1964
Statistics
Daily traffic	65,000 vpd (2012 figurs)
Toll	Free syne 11 Februar 2008

The Forth Road Brig is a suspension brig in east central Scotland. The brig, appened on the 4t September 1964,^[3] spans the Firth o Forth, connectin the caipital ceety Edinburgh, at Sooth Queensferry, tae Fife, at North Queensferry. It replaced a centuries-auld ferry service tae cairry vehicular traffic, cyclists, an pedestrians athort the Forth; rail crossins is made bi the adjacent an historic Forth Brig.

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↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Forth Road Bridge Facts and Figures". Forth Bridges Visitors Centre Trust. Archived frae the original on 18 December 2013. Retrieved 28 Januar 2012.
↑ Forth Crossing Bridge Constructors (consortium). "3 Centuries of Spanning the Forth" (PDF). p. 4. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 6 Juin 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2012. Traffic: Each year, almost 24 million vehicles cross the bridge. Statistics show that, typically, 2% more vehicles head south than north.
↑ "The Bridge – Introduction" (in Inglis). Forth Estuary Transport Authority. Archived frae the original on 30 Apryle 2009. Retrieved 7 September 2013.

[FBVC-1] "Forth Road Bridge Facts and Figures". Forth Bridges Visitors Centre Trust. Archived frae the original on 18 December 2013. Retrieved 28 Januar 2012.

[2] Forth Crossing Bridge Constructors (consortium). "3 Centuries of Spanning the Forth" (PDF). p. 4. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 6 Juin 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2012. Traffic: Each year, almost 24 million vehicles cross the bridge. Statistics show that, typically, 2% more vehicles head south than north.

[3] "The Bridge – Introduction" (in Inglis). Forth Estuary Transport Authority. Archived frae the original on 30 Apryle 2009. Retrieved 7 September 2013.

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