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domingo, 3 de julho de 2011

Longest sea bridge opens - news















Jiaozhou Bay Bridge


- 26,4 miles long?!
- 110 ft wide!
- L 1 billion!!
- 5.000 pillars?!
- Incredible, fantastic, extraordinary!

But the three longest bridges over the sea are chinese! Look!
Jiaozhou Bay Bridge - 42.500 m
Hangzhou Bay Bridge -  35.673 m
Donghai Bridge - 32.500 m

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China has opened the world’s longest cross-sea bridge - which stretches five miles further than the distance between Dover and Calais.
The Jiaozhou Bay bridge is 26.4 miles long and links China’s eastern port city of Qingdao to the
offshore island Huangdao. The road bridge, which is 110ft wide and is the longest of its kind, cost nearly £1billion to build.Chinese TV reports said the bridge passed construction appraisals on Monday and it, along with an undersea tunnel, would be opened for traffic yesterday. It took four years to build the bridge, which is supported by more than 5,000 pillars across the bay, and it is almost three miles longer than the previous record-holder - the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana. That structure features two bridges running side by...LINK

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