Would you second any Third Forth Bridge title?

[PaxVobiscum]

Or perhaps you can think of a more witty name than these predictable official candidates:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-22335189

Forth Replacement Crossing name shortlist revealed

A panel of judges has revealed a shortlist of five names for the new Forth Replacement Crossing.

Civic, business and community representatives looked at 7,000 suggestions submitted by the public.

The five names are Caledonia Bridge, Firth of Forth Crossing, Queensferry Crossing, Saltire Crossing and St Margaret's Crossing.

The shortlist for the state-of-the-art wind-shielding bridge will now go to a public vote.

Construction of the £790m bridge began last year and is due to finish in 2016.

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What's in a name?

Caledonia Bridge: Caledonia is a Latin name for Scotland. It was given by the Roman Empire for the area beyond their northern frontier of Roman Britain.

Firth of Forth Crossing: Formed by an ice age glacier, the Firth of Forth is the estuary where the River Forth flows into the North Sea.

Queensferry Crossing: Named after Queen (Saint) Margaret who established a ferry to carry pilgrims travelling to St Andrews and Dunfermline.

Saltire crossing: Scotland's national flag, representing the cross of St Andrew, the country's patron saint.

St Margaret's Crossing: Saint Margaret of Scotland (1045 - 1093) became queen consort of Scotland when she married King Malcolm III Canmore.

Source: Transport Scotland

If you include the Kincardine Bridges, it will be the Fifth Bridge.

 

[Eagle]

If you include the Kincardine Bridges, it will be the Fifth Bridge.

But then you'd have to include all the bridges over the Forth at Stirling or upstream thereof. By my reckoning that makes it the Sixteenth Forth Bridge (Seventeenth if you count the two halves of the rail bridge at Stirling as separate).

You can't even call it the Forth Motorway Bridge as the M9 has a bridge over the Forth just north of J10.

 

[table38]

Maybe it's a bit like the new Severn Bridge which I assume has a fancy "proper name" but is just "the new bridge" to me.

Mind you, I call the "Queen Elizabeth II Bridge" the "Dartford Tunnel Bridge" so I'm not the best judge of names

 

[PaxVobiscum]

Maybe it's a bit like the new Severn Bridge which I assume has a fancy "proper name" but is just "the new bridge" to me.

That comment reminded me that there was a highly unmemorable name given to the second Kincardine road bridge when it opened - I had to look it up ('Clackmannanshire Bridge').

But then you'd have to include all the bridges over the Forth at Stirling or upstream thereof.

Only if I was including all the bridges over the Forth at Stirling or upstream thereof. (I wasn't).

 

[W-on-Sea]

At least "Alec Salmond Bridge" isn't (yet) among the official proposals...

I have to prefer "St Margaret's Bridge" to the other options - all of which hint at Scotland, but in an utterly generic way (well, except for "Firth of Forth Bridge" which is dull, very dull) . Well, OK, "Queensferry Bridge" is fine, and specific about the location too - but seems purely descriptive, although it would do, I think.....At least the personification in actually naming the Queen concerned (who gives her names to the settlements nearby) has a bit more individuality about it - and a historic reference point pertaining to the locality too.

(Alternatively: Thatcher only died the other day, and she is already a Saint? Wow. Not many votes for that one coming in from Scotland then)

 

[Liam]

Only if I was including all the bridges over the Forth at Stirling or upstream thereof. (I wasn't).

Still you would be wrong. In order from oldest. Alloa Swing Bridge (1885), Forth Bridge (1890) Kincardine Bridge (1936), Forth Road Bridge (1964) Clackmannanshire Bridge (2008), which would make the new bridge number 6. Or 8 if you include Cambuskenneth Bridge (1935) and the A91 Eastern bypass (1980's), both of which I would class as downstream of Stirling.

 

[PaxVobiscum]

Still you would be wrong. In order from oldest. Alloa Swing Bridge (1885), Forth Bridge (1890) Kincardine Bridge (1936), Forth Road Bridge (1964) Clackmannanshire Bridge (2008), which would make the new bridge number 6. Or 8 if you include Cambuskenneth Bridge (1935) and the A91 Eastern bypass (1980's), both of which I would class as downstream of Stirling.

But I wasn't listing in chronological order. By adding another two bridges to the (unstated but implied) list of three Queensferry bridges, I gave a further raison d'être to the second of the two feeble puns in the original post. My geographical limits were self-defining. I remain unrepentant.

 

[Eagle]

Maybe it's a bit like the new Severn Bridge which I assume has a fancy "proper name" but is just "the new bridge" to me.

Second Severn Crossing. Which is a stupid name, I profess.

Most people tend to call it "the M4 bridge" (as opposed to "the M48 bridge" I guess...), so perhaps the FRC will just end up being known as "the M90 bridge".

 

[martinsh]

How about Lets Try and Build One That Lasts Bridge ??!!

 

[Eagle]

The Queen Elizabeth I of Scotland bridge?

 

[90019]

Maybe it's a bit like the new Severn Bridge which I assume has a fancy "proper name" but is just "the new bridge" to me.

I'm sure most of us will continue to refer to it as the new bridge, regardless of the official name.


To be honest, so long as they don't call it the Saltire Crossing (which is an awful name), I couldn't really care less what they call it.

 

[PaxVobiscum]

The Saltwire Crossing would be a better name for the present Road Bridge.

 

[fergusjbend]

When a new bridge was built between the Isle of Sheppey and the mainland of Kent the local council ran a competition to name it. This proved to be very popular and many inventive names were suggested. The winner was the stunningly original 'Sheppey Crossing'.

Fergus

 

[davido39]

Ok, since know one has said it I will...here goes...

...How about the Third of Forth Bridge...?

...there said it, I'll get my coat!

 

[D841 Roebuck]

If you asked me to second the Third Forth Bridge I would have to plead the Fifth Amendment...

 

[W-on-Sea]

The Queen Elizabeth I of Scotland bridge?

I like that....

 

[Butts]

What about The Gordon Brown Bridge - he lives very close to it

 

[PaxVobiscum]

What about The Gordon Brown Bridge - he lives very close to it

He'll be keeping an eye on it?

"Shame! Shame!"

(Sorry, Gordon.)

 

[90019]

My favorite of the suggestions that didn't make it was the Forth Road Bridge Jnr.

 

[Butts]

Is it going to be two lanes either way like the existing one, and are there plans to run both like the Clackmannan and Kincardine Bridges.

I drove over it on Sunday and can't see much "on the water" yet

 

[Trainfan344]

How about we call it "A Bridge"?

 

[Butts]

How about we call it "A Bridge"?

Gateway to Fife - they'd love that in the "wee kingdom"

 

[D841 Roebuck]

...(continued from Post 15) - although my Sixth Sense tells me that the promoters will be in Seventh Heaven un the unlikely event of the bridge being regarded as the Eighth Wonder of the World...

 

[Eagle]

Is it going to be two lanes either way like the existing one, and are there plans to run both like the Clackmannan and Kincardine Bridges.

Dual two lanes and hard shoulders to full motorway standards and restrictions (known as D2M). The old bridge will remain open for buses and local traffic.
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How about we call it "A Bridge"?

Only if the old one becomes B Bridge, and the rail one C Bridge.

 

[Butts]

Dual two lanes and hard shoulders to full motorway standards and restrictions (known as D2M). The old bridge will remain open for buses and local traffic.

Thankyou

 

[LE Greys]

The Bridge of the Last Minstrel

There has to be a Walter Scott reference somewhere.