Friday, November 24, 2006

World's Longest sea bridge

Check out this amazing new bridge nearing completion in China. This from Spluch:

Here's the specs:

The bridge spans 36 km of which 32 km lies above the sea, has a width of 33 meters which will accommodate 6 lanes in both directions and will have a speed limit of 100 km/h. Constructed from more than 2.4 million cubic meter of concrete, it will be supported by 7,500 concrete pilings. This bridge which cost US $1.42 billion is expected to last up to 100 years.
This is a truly amazing engineering feat. It is supposed to be ready for traffic in 2008. It sounds like quite a wild ride. Can you imagine getting stuck in traffic on this thing? Six lanes of bumper to bumper traffic for over 20 miles? Insane. Fortunately I don't think this is going to be a regular daily commute for most people and with six lanes on each side it should be able to handle quite a bit. So who wants to take a trip to test drive this thing?

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