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Re: World's longest sea bridge opens in China
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 today.
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 side and is 23.87 miles long.
The three-way Qingdao Haiwan bridge is 174 times longer than London's Tower Bridge, spanning the River Thames, but cuts only 19 miles off the drive from Qingdao to Huangdao.
Two separate groups of workers have been building it from different ends of the structure since 2006.
After linking the two ends of the bridge on December 22, one engineer said: 'The computer models and calculations are all very well but you can't relax until the two sides are bolted together.
'Even a few centimetres out would have been a disaster.'
The engineering feat will only hold the record as the longest sea bridge for a few years - it will be beaten by another Chinese bridge in the next decade.
Last December officials announced workers had begun constructing a bridge to link southern Guangdong province with Hong Kong and Macau.
Set to be completed in 2016, officials said the £6.5billion bridge will span nearly 30 miles.
It will be designed to cope with earthquakes up to magnitude 8.0, strong typhoons and the impact of a 300,000 tonne vessel.
But both structures will still be dwarfed by the longest bridge in the world, also in China.
The Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge is an astonishing 102 miles in length.
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- monkeychow
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Re: World's longest sea bridge opens in China
Ok...so Melbourne Australia and Los Angeles are 7918 miles appart....which means at these prices...for $300 Billion or so we could build a road connecting Australia to the USA!!!
Sounds like a lot but isn't the iraq war up to $788 trillion or something...it's pocket change compared to that..come on do it....do it...I wanna road trip to the usa!!!
Re: World's longest sea bridge opens in China
$788 TRILLION?!?!
Dude the entire U.S. debt is only (I laugh when I say only because it's embarassing) like $14 trillion.
And btw, I would be scared as shit to drive a bridge connecting the U.S. to Australia. That bad boy is just aching to be blown up by someone.
- monkeychow
- Rep: 661
Re: World's longest sea bridge opens in China
LOL sorry got a bit mixed up there....it's $788 Billion in Iraq....total war if you include Afganhistan then it's about $1.2 Trillion....I lost count of my zeros there!!
But still, iraq alone is enough for 2 bridges to Australia - or one with a whole lot of fuel stations, Mc Donalds and hotels along the way 
But i see your point...would kind of attract terrorism...but you know you want to road-trip to the next aussie tour.
- Smoking Guns
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Re: World's longest sea bridge opens in China
When is the last time the US built something badass like that... China is coming on strong for sure.
Re: World's longest sea bridge opens in China
LOL sorry got a bit mixed up there....it's $788 Billion in Iraq....total war if you include Afganhistan then it's about $1.2 Trillion....I lost count of my zeros there!!
But still, iraq alone is enough for 2 bridges to Australia - or one with a whole lot of fuel stations, Mc Donalds and hotels along the way
But i see your point...would kind of attract terrorism...but you know you want to road-trip to the next aussie tour.
Yeah, if you could drive it with this...
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- monkeychow
- Rep: 661
Re: World's longest sea bridge opens in China
Excellent!
I'll be doing my road trips in this bad boy:
Figure they can gift me one for thinking up the AU/USA bridge...i'm a "consultant"
