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Feb 2020
2:41pm, 11 Feb 2020
6,352 posts
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jda
Didn't have bridge closures before Brexit.
Just saying.
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Feb 2020
2:54pm, 11 Feb 2020
15,921 posts
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Bazoaxe
We did actually. The old bridge was closed for months
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Feb 2020
3:12pm, 11 Feb 2020
6,353 posts
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jda
You don't fool me with your alternative facts. Anyway the new bridge will be up and running in about 10 years, with gardens and Schrodinger's customs checkpoints and all.
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Feb 2020
3:23pm, 11 Feb 2020
13,486 posts
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richmac
Will it also carry HS2 ?
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Feb 2020
3:27pm, 11 Feb 2020
879 posts
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Ally-C
According to a tweet I just read this was what was stated.
Transport Scotland project director David Climie said: "We're optimistic that the new bridge will never close but we can't guarantee that as who knows what might happen."
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Feb 2020
3:42pm, 11 Feb 2020
6,355 posts
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jda
For a moment I thought you were talking about the gobshite bridge there 
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Feb 2020
3:57pm, 11 Feb 2020
10,310 posts
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larkim
Whilst it may well be a white elephant, part of me can at least see the logic in connecting physically one part of the UK with another via a bridge and "cementing" the permanence of the Union.
That being said, with one part of that connected Union muttering loudly about disestablishing itself from the Union, and another part of that connected Union has an even more fractious relationship with the remainder of the Union from a sizeable chunk of their population, it could be a connection that is only relatively shortlived!
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Feb 2020
4:14pm, 11 Feb 2020
6,356 posts
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jda
Only good thing about it is the prospect of English Tory Brexiters finding out in 10 years that they have just paid to build a bridge between two EU nations.
For that reason alone, I'm sorry to have to say it's a nonsense idea.
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Feb 2020
4:40pm, 11 Feb 2020
34,145 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Lol, yeah, that would be fun. A Westminster funded bridge between an independent Scotland and re-united Ireland all in the EU. Let's spend 100Bn on that! G
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Feb 2020
4:40pm, 11 Feb 2020
1,722 posts
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um
[ Larkim - once Scotland is independent and back in the Eu, the bridge will create a seamless EU - without the need for a supply chain through Englandshire.
Or alternately, they could look at the Manx flag and build a 3 legged bridge ]
[Just noting that it took over 100 years and a few attempts to 'get the channel tunnel done']
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