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Is there any need for most travelling to actually work in edinburgh?
Fife is supplying thousands of workers to edinburgh but can they not just work in remote offices in fife?
Whole thing seems daft. It's an easy environmental improvement. Not just for edinburgh but any major city.

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Yeah exactly!
Why can't all those doctors, nurses, firemen, teachers, cleaners, construction workers, carers and shop staff not just do their work from their own kitchens? [emoji38]
Seriously though we do need solutions to the fact that everyone wants to work in the same area at the same time.
Office workers dumbass
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5 hours ago, The Master said:

Tay_Road_Bridge_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4334 

#ProperBridge

The wife's uncle worked on the construction of that. Being a Dundonian, he was a raging alcoholic and turned up for work most days blind drunk. He fell off it three times in two years and was fired after the last time for losing a tool in the Tay.

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6 hours ago, The Master said:

Tay_Road_Bridge_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4334 

#ProperBridge

So the train mov’d slowly along the Bridge of Tay,
Until it was about midway,
Then the central girders with a crash gave way,
And down went the train and passengers into the Tay!
The Storm Fiend did loudly bray,
Because ninety lives had been taken away,
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.

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3 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said:

So the train mov’d slowly along the Bridge of Tay,
Until it was about midway,
Then the central girders with a crash gave way,
And down went the train and passengers into the Tay!
The Storm Fiend did loudly bray,
Because ninety lives had been taken away,
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.

If it's not Billy Connolly reciting William McGonagle in a fucking blizzard, i'm not interested.

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Perhaps Boris Johnson will propose extending HS2 from Leeds to Newcastle, then on to Embra and Fife, finishing in Dundee, or maybe  on to Aberdeen, before finally terminating in the celestial city of Inverness.

That would make more sense and be less costly than building a bridge across the fucking Irish Sea. 

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40 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said:

So the train mov’d slowly along the Bridge of Tay,
Until it was about midway,
Then the central girders with a crash gave way,
And down went the train and passengers into the Tay!
The Storm Fiend did loudly bray,
Because ninety lives had been taken away,
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.

Was this a train that 1) didn't use tracks and 2) could travel in time?

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3 hours ago, topcat(The most tip top) said:

So the train mov’d slowly along the Bridge of Tay,
Until it was about midway,
Then the central girders with a crash gave way,
And down went the train and passengers into the Tay!
The Storm Fiend did loudly bray,
Because ninety lives had been taken away,
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember’d for a very long time.

Oh beautiful bridge that is the Queensferry Crossing,

Takes 1.7 miles to walk the whole thing, 

And praises for the new replacement bridge many did sing,

As it allowed for the continuation of road travel back and forth,

Across the Firth of Forth.

 

It has not one, not two, but three a tall tower,

That you can see from Kincardine and perhaps Aberdour,

Designed to handle winds and many a rain shower,

But not snow and ice,

Which when it sparkles looks nice.

 

But the structure of the bridge is cable-stayed,

And so travellers across need not be afraid,

When they go about their travel for leisure or trade,

Along the longest triple tower cable-stayed bridge on this Earth,

Either southwards towards Edinburgh, or north towards Perth.

 

But on the 10th February in 2020,

The weather was cold and ice formed aplenty,

But heating on the cables, they didn't have any,

And so ice gathered and fell onto the road,

And it hit with a bash, and the ice did explode!

 

And so the bridge it had to be closed,

And the Fife commuters they all proposed,

That the Forth Road Bridge that had supposedly decomposed,

Should be temporarily opened given the circumstance,

But they couldn't, because it was under maintenance.

 

The Fifers were not impressed,

And the commuters were beginning to get stressed,

And there was probably a great deal of unrest,

As they all had to go through the pain,

Of going to work in the morning by using the train

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