Forth Road Bridge

The first crossing at the site of the bridge was established in the 11th century by Margaret, queen consort of King Malcolm III, who founded a ferry service to transport religious pilgrims from Edinburgh to Dunfermline Abbey and St Andrews. Its creation gave rise to the port towns of Queensferry and North Queensferry, which remain to this day; the passenger ferry service continued without interruption for over 800 years. There were proposals as early as the 1740s for a road crossing at the site, although its viability was only considered after the Forth Bridge was built in 1890. The importance of the crossing for vehicular traffic was underpinned when the Great Britain road numbering scheme…

| status = | legislation_history = | theyworkforyou = | millbankhansard = | original_text = https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Geo6/10-11/4/pdfs/ukla_19470004_en.pdf | revised_text = | use_new_UK-LEG = | UK-LEG_title = | collapsed = yes }} With the then newest and nearest bridge spanning the Forth (the Kincardine Bridge, built in 1936) still around 15 mi upstream, the upsurge in demand for a road crossing between Edinburgh and Fife prompted the UK Government to establish the (FRBJB) by an act of Parliament, the (10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. iv) to oversee the implementation of a new bridge to replace the ferry service. The authorities on both sides investigated in 1955, and drew up an alternative…