Hangzhou Bay Bridge
Sign in to savelong 36km sea-crossing highway bridge with two separate cable-stayed spans and a mid-bridge service center, completed 2008 across the mouth of Hangzhou Bay in Zhejiang, China
Key facts
- Carries
- Six lanes of G15 Shenyang–Haikou Expressway and G92 Hangzhou Bay Ring Expressway
- Crosses
- Hangzhou Bay
- Locale
- Jiaxing / Cixi City China
- Design
- Cable-stayed bridge
- Total length
- 35.673 km (22 mi)
- Longest span
- 448 m (1,470 ft)
- Construction start
- June 8, 2003
- Construction end
- June 14, 2007
- Opened
- May 1, 2008
- Toll
- 80 yuan
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- road bridge
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Zhejiang
- Material used
- steel
- Location
- Jiaxing
- Image
- Hangzhou Bay Bridge ABA 1360 AK1.jpg
- Length
- 35673
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- carries thoroughfare
- G92 Hangzhou Bay Ring Expressway
- longest span
- 448
- Commons category
- Hangzhou Bay Bridge
- crosses
- Hangzhou Bay
- date of official opening
- 2008-05-01
- inception
- 2008-05-01
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Encyclopedic overview
Hangzhou Bay Bridge (simplified Chinese: 杭州湾大桥; traditional Chinese: 杭州灣大橋; pinyin: Hángzhōu Wān Dàqiáo; Wu: Han-tseu-uae du-jiau) is a long 35.7 km (22.2 mi) highway bridge with two separate cable-stayed portions, built across the mouth of Hangzhou Bay in the eastern coastal region of China. It connects the municipalities of Jiaxing and Ningbo in Zhejiang province.
Construction of the bridge was completed on June 14, 2007, and an opening ceremony was held on June 26, 2007. The bridge was opened to public May 1, 2008, after a considerable period of testing and evaluation. The bridge shortened the highway travel distance between Ningbo and Shanghai from 400 km (249 mi) to 180 km (112 mi) and reduced travel time from 4 to 2 hours. At 35.673 km (22 mi) in length, Hangzhou Bay Bridge was among the ten longest trans-oceanic bridges.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hangzhou Bay Bridge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.