A BRIDGE for trams and buses will have to be built over the Forth, alongside the existing road and rail bridges, to solve the huge traffic crisis between Fife and the Lothians, it was claimed yesterday.OK, maybe it's needed but what's this "Estuary" business? As all Scots know it's not an Estuary, it's a Firth. As I may have suggested before, local transport authorities must be acronym-friendly. So out with Feta and in with the Forth Area Rapid Transit.The Forth Estuary Transport Authority (Feta), which is in charge of the Forth road bridge, said the Scottish Executive must look seriously at a new crossing.
A libertarian returns to Scotland
"Freedom and Whisky gang thegither"
- Robert Burns
Tuesday, 9 September 2003
Bridge over misnamed water
There are plans for another bridge over the Forth: