AS an engineer I am very impressed by the new bridge but I I’m less than impressed by the Government’s handling of the timetable (“Queensferry Crossing is delayed again”, The Herald, March 29).
I realise that Keith Brown is a politician but for the bridge to be delayed at least nine months due to high winds is a lame excuse.
I live on the Forth estuary and the weather has not been unusual or abnormal over the past two years.
Exactly what type of weather was the Government expecting that it would have been finished in December 2016, the original date ?
The approach roads on the north side are not even finished. Perhaps this is weather related too.
We would prefer a little honesty; stop taking us for idiots and treating us with contempt.
Sadly we have a government that will toe the party line at all costs and I’m sure it was pleased to announce the further delay on a day when there was bigger self-generated news.
Finally, anyone who thinks that the new bridge will speed up their daily commute is going to be sadly mistaken, I fear. The feeder and exit roads just lead to the usual bottlenecks. Oh, how I hope to be mistaken.
Ian McNair,
47A James Street, Cellardyke.
THE overhaul of Glasgow’s Queen Street station has been bedevilled, it would appear, by the wrangling over retail developments connected to Buchanan Galleries shopping centre (“Station revamp plan delayed by legal hitch”, The Herald, March 29).
The station redevelopment rather obviously plans retail outlets and suchlike within the station, notably, I should imagine, on the North Hanover/Cathedral Street site area.
This would vie for custom with such as is already extant or planned nearby.
A more pressing matter, operationally, is that, if the platform extensions to cater for intended eight-carriage formations on peak hour Edinburgh services are further delayed, this would have a severe impact on the otherwise completed overall electrification project by what I take to be December 2018.
John Macnab,
175 Grahamsdyke Street,
Laurieston,
Falkirk.
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