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[[File:yangpu.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Yangpu suspension bridge]]Work on the giant '''Yangpu suspension bridge''' started on April 29, [[1991]] and finished just two years and 5 months later on September 15, [[1993]]. The entire structure is 7,658 meters long and its main section spans 1,172 meters. The bridge's inverted Y-shaped towers are 208 meters high and its 6-lane highway is 30.35 meters wide. The bridge soars 48 meters above the Huangpu River allowing 55,000-ton ships to pass under it.  
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Work on the giant '''Yangpu suspension bridge''' started on April 29, [[1991]] and finished just two years and 5 months later on September 15, [[1993]]. The entire structure is 7,658 meters long and its main section spans 1,172 meters. The bridge's inverted Y-shaped towers are 208 meters high and its 6-lane highway is 30.35 meters wide. The bridge soars 48 meters above the Huangpu River allowing 55,000-ton ships to pass under it.  
  
 
Yangpu Bridge is 72 meters longer than the Skarnsundet Bridge in Norway which, at the time, was the longest suspension bridge in the world.
 
Yangpu Bridge is 72 meters longer than the Skarnsundet Bridge in Norway which, at the time, was the longest suspension bridge in the world.
  
 
[[Category:Bridges]]
 
[[Category:Bridges]]

Revision as of 06:20, 4 September 2009

Yangpu suspension bridge

Work on the giant Yangpu suspension bridge started on April 29, 1991 and finished just two years and 5 months later on September 15, 1993. The entire structure is 7,658 meters long and its main section spans 1,172 meters. The bridge's inverted Y-shaped towers are 208 meters high and its 6-lane highway is 30.35 meters wide. The bridge soars 48 meters above the Huangpu River allowing 55,000-ton ships to pass under it.

Yangpu Bridge is 72 meters longer than the Skarnsundet Bridge in Norway which, at the time, was the longest suspension bridge in the world.