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The Queensferry Crossing is a three-tower cable-stayed bridge, with an overall length of 1.7 miles (2.7 kilometres). [4] Around 2.5 miles (4 kilometres) of new connecting roads were built, [ 5 ] including new and upgraded junctions at Ferrytoll in Fife, South Queensferry and Junction 1A on the M9 .
A fact from Queensferry Crossing appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 June 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the name for the new bridge being built alongside the Forth Road Bridge and the Forth Bridge is to be chosen in a public vote in 2013?
Queensferry Crossing, a road bridge over the Firth of Forth This page was last edited on 16 March 2019, at 02:52 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The planners wished the arterial A9 road to be routed across the Forth here, although the unwillingness to have a ferry crossing as part of this route led to the A90 number being assigned instead. [14] There was more lobbying for a road crossing in the 1920s and 1930s, when the only vehicle crossing was a single passenger and vehicle ferry.
A regular service is known to have crossed at Queensferry as early as the 12th century, using a series of natural rock landings west of Queensferry Harbour. [4] Small permanent structures existed at both sides of the crossing by 1710, but by 1760 these were considered inadequate for the most trafficked ferry passage in Scotland. [4]
North Queensferry is a historic coastal village in Fife, Scotland, situated on the Firth of Forth, 9 mi (14 km) from Edinburgh city centre. Located on the North Queensferry Peninsula, it is the southernmost settlement in Fife .
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The viaduct carries the line crossing the Forth Bridge, from Edinburgh to Aberdeen and the north of Scotland, and carries a significant volume of both passenger and freight rail traffic, which previously included transporting coal to Longannet Power Station [1] prior to its closure in 2016.