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CHINESE ENGINEERS HAVE completed the structure of what is expected to become the world’s highest bridge, local authorities said.
The Beipanjiang Bridge, in mountainous southwestern China, soars 565 metres above Nizhu River Canyon, the Guizhou provincial transport department said in a statement.
As such it overtakes the Si Du River Bridge in the central province of Hubei to become the world’s highest bridge, said the statement posted on Sunday.
The two ends of the bridge were linked on Saturday, it added.
The 1,341-metre span is expected to open to traffic at the end of this year and will cut road trips from Liupanshui in Guizhou to Xuanwei in neighbouring Yunnan province from around five hours to less than two, state broadcaster China Central Television reported Monday.
Several of the world’s highest bridges are in China, although the world’s tallest bridge — measured in terms of the height of its own structure, rather than the distance to the ground — remains France’s Millau viaduct at 343 metres tall.
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Imagine what e-flow would charge us for that!!
Great bunch of lads
Project manager Mei So Hai is said to be delighted with himself.
As long as he doesn’t meet Mei So Low…
This is why I love engineering. You can take our previous knowledge and experience, put a plan down on paper, do the maths and then achieve something incredible that’s never been done before.
Far out! There is absolutely no way I could work so high in the air.
Me neither , come to think of it , I’m not great on the ground either…
Beautiful….
Cool!
I’d love to work on something like that but in reality I’d probably have to crawl on all fours crying whenever I went onto the bridge.
Couldn’t find link to video on this post but here it is anyway
1000 engineers, Mr Miyagi could have done it on his own
Mr. Miyagi was Japanese and he wasn’t an engineer. He was a karate teacher.
Ohhh, no mercy. Sweep the leg Johnny.
Really???? Wow, I’ll have to watch the Karate Kid again so, I totally missed the plot.
Why is it expected to become the worlds highest bridge? Can that not be decided now?
With China’s record of building such grand projects which ultimately fail (high speed rail network with lousy safety records, glass bridges with cracks, even simple escalators which gobble people up to their death) there is no way in hell is be crossing that bridge!
I wonder what type of crane was used..you could see the slings and lifting hook around the 44 second mark onwards…I wonder was it one of them helicopter cranes used in skyscrapers…would be interesting to know.
That would be some Bungee. Maybe 10 seconds freefall.
Spectacular but where’s the glass bottom ??
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