2 -hour travel time to 2 minutes: the new highest bridge in the world makes life easier for cars and is an architectural work from another world.
The new highest bridge in the world, inaugurated this Sunday, is in China, which may not be a surprising news for those who already know that, of the 50 bridges, only 3 are not in this country.
However, what is surprising is its height: it is the 625 meters above the river river Beipan – Already crossed by two of the highest bridges in the world – in Gizhou. THE HUAJIANG GRIDGE BRIDGE So it is more than twice the height of the Eiffel Tower – there is practically the height of Shanghai Tower, the third largest building in the world.
Guizhou is already home of almost half of the 100 highest bridges in the world, denotes, and this is remarkable by the extremely useful architecture to the population: to cross the gorge, they were accurate 2 hours by car, time now reduced to 2 minutes.
On the bridge, there are several lanes, and those who cross it should have no vertigo: it is even on a huge cliff.
Zhang Yin, director of the Guizhou Provincial Department of Transport, said that to build the bridge it was necessary to exceed challenges such as the strong winds in the gorge and the complex geological conditions.
And the bridge really becomes the Longer mountain bridge in the worldwith a total length of 2.890 metros.
The main bridge was assembled from 93 Steel Truss sectionswith a total weight of about 22,000 tons – Three times the weight of the Eiffel Tower.
