Falling ice risk closed Scandinavian bridge

SIR, – Mr Alexander Sutherland (Letters, February 17) claims that had the Queensferry Crossing been designed and constructed in Norway or Sweden, its suspension cables would have been fitted with heating elements to stop ice forming on them.

Not that I wish to pour cold water – really, no pun intended – on such an idea but I must point out that at the same time as the Queensferry Crossing was experiencing problems with ice, the Öresund Bridge linking Malmö in Sweden and Copenhagen in Denmark was also closed to road traffic due to the risk of ice falling on vehicles.

This suggests that, in fact, whoever was involved in building these bridges might be less of a factor than what the weather is doing. Who’d have guessed, eh?

Dick Winchester, Old Rayne,

Aberdeenshire