China says : ah ma, ngo dark jor!!!
Started simultaneously in the cities of Nantong and Suzhou in 2003, the Sutong Yangtze Road Bridge, linking Nantong and Changshuin Suzhou, runs 32.4 kilometers, with 8,146 meters spanning the Yangtze, China’s longest waterway.
It has the world’s longest span of 1,088 meters, usurping the previous record holder, the Tatara Bridge in Japan, which has a main span of 890 meters.
Its steel and concrete bridge towers, the tallest in the world, stand at 300.4 meters…
… Around 150,000 bridges had been built in China over the past 15 years, an average of 10,000 a year, said Xu Kuangdi, president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
The bridges, with a total distance of more than 8,300 kilometers, include road and railway bridges, cloverleaf intersections in big cities, and 156.7 kilometers of bridges built on frozen ground for the Qinghai-Tibet railway.
As reported by Xinhua
Image from The Beijing News
Imagine driving a straight line, for the distance of 80km with nothing to view at except the vast open sea. What happened if a ship passed through? I think for maintenance, to complete a cycle will takes them 2 years or more unless the task taken concurrently.
Well, it’s going to be another megastructure?
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