World's longest sea bridge open for traffic

July 01, 2011 10:06

A bridge so long that it could host an entire marathon race has been opened between the Chinese port of Qingdao with the industrial suburb of Huangdao. It crosses Jiaozhou Bay and is the world's longest sea bridge.

The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge stretches 26.4 miles, making it two-tenths of a mile longer than the English Channel.

Construction teams totalling 10,000 workers took four years to build the bridge, which carries a six-lane highway, 110 feet across, that has halved the journey time across the bay for motorists to half an hour

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