Worlds longest bridge; 100 miles long.
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Is there a toll to cross it?
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Seems like most of the bridge goes over rice paddies and swamp.... very little over open water like the photos....
Disingenuous at least......
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/34448-worlds-longest-bridge.htmlspyder7723 Thanks this. -
Are there rest areas? Some folks can't make it 100 miles
without going to the bathroom. Wonder how many people
don't plan and they run out of gas?
If they do have service plazas I bet the gas is a little high
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The bridge is located on the rail line between Shanghai and Nanjing in East China’s Jiangsu province. It is in the Yangtze River Delta where the geography is characterized by lowland rice paddies, canals, rivers, and lakes. The bridge runs roughly parallel to the Yangtze River, about 8 to 80 km (5 to 50 mi) south of the river. It passes through the northern edges of population centers (from west to east) beginning in Danyang, Changzhou, Wuxi, Suzhou, and ending in Kunshan. There is a 9-kilometre long (5.6 mi) section over open water across Yangcheng Lake in Suzhou.[1]
It was completed in 2010 and opened in 2011. Employing 10,000 people, construction took four years and cost about $8.5 billion.[1] The Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge currently holds the Guinness World Record for the longest bridge in the world in any category as of June 2011[update].[2] -
Evironmentlists must be apoplectic over that feat of engineering!
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China also built the worlds highest tunnel to tunnel bridge: Anzhaite Long-span Suspension Bridge
Can see the zig-zag road the people used to have to take before the bridge was built.
With a main span of 1,146 metres (3,760 ft) and a deck height of 336 metres (1,102 ft),[4] as of 2013[update], it is the seventh-highest bridge in the world and the world's fifteenth-longest suspension bridge. Of the world's 400 or so highest bridges, none has a main span as long as Aizhai.[5] It is also the world's highest and longest tunnel-to-tunnel bridge.[6] The bridge contains 1888 lights to increase visibility at night.[7]bigguns, MACK E-6, pattyj and 1 other person Thank this.
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