China's 26.4-mile (42 km) long Jiaozhou Bay Bridge connecting Huangdao District, downtown Qingdao and Hongdao Island, is the world longest bridge over water. It is opened up to traffic on 30 June 2011.
The bridge cost 1.5 billion and took more than four years to build. According to the engineering-in-chief, the typhoon and earthquake-proof S-shape bridge is designed to withstand the impact of a 300,000-tonne vessel.
Reportedly it reduces travel time between downtown Qingdao and Huangdao from 1 hour to 30 minutes. One way toll fee for passenger car/pickup truck/minivan/any bus with less than 7 seats is $4.7 and an extra charge of $1.00 for round trip with 24 hours. Every 2 miles there is a service zone for vehicle towing, gas and food.
The bridge is also part of the China's National Interstate Highway G22.
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In: Regional News, Science and Technology
Tags: China, world-longest, bay bridge, Jiaozhou, Interstate, G22
Location: Qingdao, Shandong, China (load item map)
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You must admit when china wants to do projects they really go big...before anyone says it will fall down in a few years all the top engineers were european and chinese companies for all government projects.Those buildings falling down were are down by scum developers.These kind of projects would never be completed in the US too many environmental impact studies and way too much cost over run to be done by the private sector.
Posted Feb-24-2012 Bygizmo8 (407.46) 
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Big national projects today, big country failure tomorrow. Learn with russian sovietic model... They have spent trillions to build a ruined country with no new births and elderly people starving to death in the province.
Posted Feb-24-2012 ByLolling (259.70) 
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@Lolling considering your from a country noone has ever fucking hear of...
also soivet failed because they were too focused on Communism. not real economy. btw china is using western dollars for its development. so they got not real risk
Posted Feb-24-2012 ByStankin (243.08) Stankin View Channel Send Message
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China may not be perfect but they building amazing huge projects,they have the most high speed trains,most under ground tunnel system in the whole world.Their communications line is the envy of the world and they have the most green technology on the planet.Yes they still burn the chit coal but are slowly converting to alternatives.Look at the US %90 of the energy is still from fossil fuels and the US had a 60 year head start compare to china in the modern industrial years.
Posted Mar-8-2012 Bygizmo8 (407.46) 
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This exact bridge would cost 10 billion in the U.S.
Posted Feb-24-2012 ByCptDoom (286.36) 
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15 bln in France (also to feed state) and 20 bln in Italy (to feed state and also mafia).
Posted Feb-24-2012 ByLolling (259.70) 
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lol 1.5 billion dollars so someones commute is cut by 30 mins
Posted Feb-24-2012 ByNoalias (373.60) 
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@Noalias Yeah, you can afford to do that kind of thing when you're a rich country.
Posted Feb-24-2012 ByDunbal (151.58) 
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@Noalias Yes those things tend to happen when they don't have provincial and federal deficit every single year.
Posted Feb-25-2012 Byxyzzjp (101.60) 
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Cute, they gonna need some big nets to fish all those scooter daredevils out.
Posted Feb-24-2012 ByBleys (1644.90) 
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china has gone crazy building loads of stuff like this, its a massive investment just to maintain it.
Posted Feb-24-2012 ByHailToTheSkunk (312.30) 
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@HailToTheSkunk more roads = easier access = more investment = faster economic growth.
something our MPs dont seem to be able to grasp when it comes to improving our overcrowded and hideously inefficient motorways.
Posted Feb-24-2012 Byfludblud (175.30) fludblud View Channel Send Message
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just remember. they could not have done this without cheap labor. whether or not this is a good thing, i leave to you.
Posted Feb-24-2012 Byzenshiva (338.68) 
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@zenshiva Our country was founded in large part by slave labor. Whether or not this is a good thing, I'll leave for you to decide :)
Posted Feb-24-2012 Byxcentrik71 (28.50) xcentrik71 View Channel Send Message
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@xcentrik71 um, as long as you say "in large part" and not "entirely". LOTS of broke americans took dangerous jobs for cheap pay. my family was part of that segment of society (hard workers, strong work ethic, good morals). BUT they also flew the american flag, not burned it.
if you look up previous comments of mine, i've been saying forever that we still have kings and queens in america. we just don't call them that or see them as such. a society has yet to be found More..
Posted Feb-24-2012 Byzenshiva (338.68) 
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amazing
Posted Feb-24-2012 ByDemonsouls (981.40) Demonsouls View Channel Send Message
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China builds in order to keep their economy looking good. The built ghost cities (no one lives there) in order to make it look like their economic growth is good. About 64 million empty homes/apartments, along with misc. construction projects.
Check it out yourself:
"China's Ghost Cities"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbDeS_mXMnM
Posted Feb-24-2012 ByMatBower (170.40) MatBower View Channel Send Message
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looks like every other bridge over water.
Posted Feb-24-2012 Bythevoice213 (826.18) 
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BS, Longest bridge over water? You haven't been to New Orleans have you?
Given it goes over a lake, but over 32 miles over water. So longer then this.
Posted Feb-25-2012 Byjohnsonbilly74 (101.60) 
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Actually, Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana is the longest "over water"
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@wptech was
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The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, or the Causeway, consists of two parallel bridges crossing Lake Pontchartrain in southern Louisiana, United States. The longer of the two bridges is 23.83 miles (38.35 km) long. Since 1969 it was listed by Guinness World Records as the longest bridge over water in the world; in 2011 in response to the opening of the longer Jiaozhou Bay Bridge in China, Guinness created two categories for bridges over water: continuous and aggregate lengths over water. L More..
Posted Feb-24-2012 Bysupersteve70 (55.30) 
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@supersteve70 exactly. continuous is much more impressive IMO.
Posted Feb-24-2012 Bywptech (178.74) 
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@Dunbal Read thread here
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How long before the sub-standard materials, cut corners, and poor construction techniques see it become the longest bridge failure?
Posted Feb-24-2012 ByEnzian (69.70) 
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bro asian has more modern mega projects in the last decade than your chitty country would ever have..you brits cant even control riots which happens all time because of the race war brewing.
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Impressive, but earth quack 'proof'? Don't test Mom nature, if she gets pissed off, buh bye bridge.
Posted Feb-24-2012 Bymytwocents (2365.76) 
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would suck to be in the middle if a Tsunami hit.
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