The Bridge Designed to Stay Open in Brutal Weather - Queensferry Crossing

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]Older bridges close in wind, [music] this one stays partly open.

[00:00:04]Scotland's Queensferry Crossing is a three-tower [music] cable-stayed bridge beside the 19th century rail bridge and the 1964 suspension span over the Forth.

[00:00:13]Overlapping cable fans from neighboring pylons [music] stiffen the deck without a massive truss underneath, giving traffic a lighter roadway that bends less in wind.

[00:00:22]Windshields and tuned [music] deck edges turn crosswinds, so planners can partly close lanes in bad weather instead [music] of shutting the crossing completely like older designs.

[00:00:31]Opened in 2017, it quietly answers a boring highway question. How do you carry motorway loads through a notoriously [music] gusty funnel of water?