When it comes to the league of superlatives, China continually manages to stay on top of their game. This time, it’s far a sea-bridge. World’s Longest Sea Bridge connecting Hong Kong and Macau to the mainland Chinese city of Zhuhai is all set to open later this week.
The colossal image of the Greater Bay Area, the 34-mile (approximately fifty four km) bridge at the Pearl River Delta will link Zhuai, Hong Kong, Macau and eleven other towns on the path. The travel time among the cities will be substantially reduced from 3 hours to 30 minutes.Planning that shopping experience to Shenzen from Hong Kong simply were given less difficult!
While China already has the arena’s longest bridge in its kitty (Danyang Kunshan Grand Bridge), the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge as the world’s longest sea bridge may be another engineering feat.
The creation of the bridge took 9 years to complete because of repeated delays. But as they say ‘higher past due than ever’. However, personal cars will want a special permit to cross the bridge while public shipping is not even allowed.
The global’s longest sea bridge has been built to withstand typhoons and earthquakes of importance eight.0. (Wow! Has it been made with Ambuja Cement! LOL)
About 400,000 lots of steel has been included inside the bridge which is 4.Five times extra than San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
There is a 6.7 km of a submerged tunnel to keep away from busy shipping paths over the Pearl River Delta.