No trouble with bridge over water on second day

Sightseers avoid rush hours to get their first trip across

Morning rush hour passed without a hitch on the Queensferry Crossing’s second day in operation.

Following the chaos of the first day yesterday’s traffic flow seemed relatively normal.

Traffic heading south out of Fife started building up from 6.30am.

However, queues only got only as far as Junction 2 at Pitreavie.

Traffic Scotland tweeted: “So far, so good, it’s moving well northbound.”

By 7.30am Fife commuters were still backed up beyond the Pitreavie junction, but “nowhere near” Junction 3 at Halbeath – unlike on Wednesday’s opening day.

Half an hour later and southbound motorists were only joining the queue at Masterton.

“It’s definitely easing,” according to Traffic Scotland.

And by 8.30am southbound traffic was flowing from Ferrytoll and northbound was “issue-free”.

Rush hour seemed to end at the same time as it always did on the Forth Road Bridge.

By 9am both north and south carriageways were delay-free. It seems most people keen to take a spin across the new bridge heeded the advice from the authorities and avoided peak times.

Traffic continued to move freely throughout the day but by early afternoon it was starting to bunch up again. Queues were from Ferrytoll heading south by 1pm.

An hour later the jams were stretching back to around Echline northbound and Masterton southbound.

Motorists are also being reminded that it’s back to the old bridge from this morning (see right).

The Queensferry Crossing will be closed to prepare for the weekend of public celebrations when 50,000 people will be able to experience a oncein-a-lifetime chance to walk across the bridge.

So far, so good, it’s moving well northbound. TRAFFIC SCOTLAND

Picture: PA. Traffic is busy but seemingly flowing across the new Queensferry Crossing.