China Opens World's Longest Sea Bridge

Jul 12, 2011 10 comments

The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge, which was featured on Amusing Planet early this year, is open for business. State-run news channel CCTV says the bridge passed construction appraisals on Monday and the bridge and an undersea tunnel opened to traffic on Thursday.

The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge, connecting the city of Qingdao in Eastern China's Shandong province with the suburban Huangdao District across the waters of the northern part of Jiaozhou Bay, is the longest bridge over water. The 42.5 kilometer bridge is more than 4 kilometers longer than its previous record holder - a bridge over water is the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana. The six-lane bridge is expected to carry over 30,000 cars a day and will cut the commute between the city of Qingdao and the sprawling suburb of Huangdao by between 20 and 30 minutes.

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A satellite image of the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge shows the passage between Qingdao to Huangdao Island.

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Comments

  1. In one of the pictures you can see only 2 of the 12 bolts are fitted!

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    1. Considering the quality of the JUNK they ship to the USA it's not surprising 2 of 12 bolts are fitted. The only thing surprising is the gullibility of consumers who buy that JUNK.

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  2. The Chinese will break the bridge. They always do by over-loading trucks.

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  3. Saw some bolts missing frm pedestrian rails n some rails actually empty.. people can fall.. Chinese though..

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    1. These aren't pedestrian bridges. I would have thought that this would be obvious to most readers, but it seems that stupidity knows no bounds.

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    1. Typical substandard work. Missing bolts, missing rails, most likely piss poor steel. The usual...

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  5. Thanks for all the racist comments

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