Well, I made a post about it in my Top 10 Bridges and there was this picture which I really like was taken. You have the biggest plane in the world with the tallest bridge in the world. What a sight.
The marvel of extreme engineering of our times.
The marvel of extreme engineering of our times.
Here are some recent pictures taken. The bridge seems to be in the sky. So elegant and beautiful.
Some stats about this bridge:
- 2,460 m: total length of the roadway
- 7: number of piers
- 77 m: height of Pier 7, the shortest
- 343 m: height of Pier 2, the tallest (245 m at the roadway's level)
- 89 m: height of a mast
- 154: number of shrouds
- 270 m: average height of the roadway
- 4.20 m: thickness of the roadway
- 32.05 m: width of the roadway
- 85,000 m³: total volume of concrete used
- 290,000 tonnes: total weight of the bridge
- 10,000–25,000 vehicles: estimated daily traffic
- €5.40–7.00: typical automobile toll, as of July 2007
- 20 km: horizontal radius of curvature of the road deck
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