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Wasn't that bridge intentionally designed to not only be robust, but to look as imposing and robust as possible, in order to reassure the public since the previ

• arethuza 13y ago
  Yes they certainly succeeded in making it look robust! You are correct in saying that this desire was based on a previous accident where a bridge collapsed - although it a bridge in a different location (over the Firth of Tay at Dundee rather than the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Bridge_disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Bridge_disaster One interesting thing if you like Science Fiction is that Iain (M) Banks grew up in North Queensferry, which is right under the north end of the Forth Bridge - which completely dominates the wee town. I remember hearing in an interview that Iain claimed that his fascination with megastructures (e.g. Culture GSVs and Orbitals) probably came from growing up in an environment dominated by a Victorian megastructure. He even set one of his novels on a fictionalized mega-sized version of the Forth Bridge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_%28novel%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_%28novel%29