China opened today to the public not just one or two, but amazingly four of the world’s longest over-sea bridges. Three of the bridges are part of the Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Railway, which made its maiden trip today.
This project began in 2008, cost around US$33 billion and employed approximately 10,000 workers. It is expected to carry double the number of passengers than before (80 million versus approximately 40 million), whilst also reducing the time it takes to make the journey from 10 to less than 4 hours!
The Jiaozhou Bay bridge, which at 26.4 miles (42,4 km) is the world’s longest bridge over water and the sixth overall, connects the city of Qingdao to the suburban Huangdao over the other edge of the bay. It is two-tenths of a mile longer than the English Channel.
It appears that the Chinese, in their efforts to alleviate the congestion problems that plague their country, have really gotten used to making long bridges as 11 of the world’s 15 largest are located in China.
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The kind of object that Tsunamis dream about.
Just imagine for a second,Your driving one of those less then safe Toyota models that is sold all over the world on this bridge and then you look out that power window that won;t go down and you see a Tsunamis. Talk about double jeopardy.
Meh, a significant portion of this bridge is over land, making the twin span over Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana still the longest trans aquatic bridge at 24 miles in length.
Meh? That is quite an accomplishment. I am a tad bit confused, it seems the longest bridges over land and water in in China from various sources. I am wondering too about that bridge in Louisiana, it is over shallow water. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_bridges_in_the_world
http://thexodirectory.com/2011/04/danyang%E2%80%93kunshan-grand-bridge-the-longest-bridge-in-the-world/
"Located in Qingdao City in East China’s Shandong province, the Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge is the Longest Bridge in the World. It has a length of 164,800 meters (164.8 kilometers) and a span of 260 feet. The bridge was completed in 2010 after four years of construction and opened in 2011. The total cost of construction is around $8.5 billion dollars and has employed 10,000 workers. The bridge’s primary purpose is for railway traffic."
Oh, and another thing. Where did you get that a significant portion is over land? Nowhere do I find this to be true. I even look at satellite images and do not see that to be the case.
I was a road designer for the DOT. I travel the world a lot and take photos of transportation structures. After my first trip to China my coworkers refused to acknowledge how advanced the transportation system was there while looking at my photos. It was so strange. I mean, I had the photos right in front of them and they still didn't want to give any credit. Too much pride can be foolish sometimes.
Its not pride, its plain ignorance and wishful thinking.
A typical sign of places, where infrastructure is decaying and unable to ease congestion.
The roads arent even Chinas biggest achievement, its their progress in public mass-transport. Something most of the US still considers abhorrent and "communist".
China sends us our own bridges. China is even making bridges for us. The New San Francisco-Oakland bridge is made in china and it was shipped here recently.
I can see the San Francisco Bay Bridge from my home. They needed the crane from China as well. The high speed rail in China is really coming along. They are planning to connect with Europe's rail system within 10 years. Let's not even talk about how they throw up the world's tallest buildings in no time. Every time I go back there something is under construction. It is amazing how many people they through at a major construction project.
High speed rail from China to Europe.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7397846/Kings-Cross-to-Beijing-in-two-days-on-new-high-speed-rail-network.html
Another area that the USA is sucking a hind tit.
Americans and their leaders spend all their efforts trying to screw each other as the rest of the world passes them by.
Yankee bullshit does not fuel the world anymore.
Get over it, and start working together, instead of trying to gain an advantage over each other.
Trillions of dollars the federal govt is in debt. When are they going they are going to fix the roads and get more jobs for Americans? Stop navel gazing and get the feds to get people working with more road works.
amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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