"World's highest bridge" opens to traffic in China
Moderator: Site Management Team
- roadtester
- Member
- Posts: 31506
- Joined: Mon Mar 26, 2007 18:05
- Location: Cambridgeshire
"World's highest bridge" opens to traffic in China
I hadn't heard of this before but it looks pretty impressive:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/world ... na-n701531
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/world ... na-n701531
Re: "World's highest bridge" opens to traffic in China
That makes Millau look quite tame!
Bryn
Terminally cynical, unimpressed, and nearly Middle Age already.
She said life was like a motorway; dull, grey, and long.
Blog - https://showmeasign.online/
X - https://twitter.com/ShowMeASignBryn
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@BrynBuck
Terminally cynical, unimpressed, and nearly Middle Age already.
She said life was like a motorway; dull, grey, and long.
Blog - https://showmeasign.online/
X - https://twitter.com/ShowMeASignBryn
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@BrynBuck
-
- Member
- Posts: 1409
- Joined: Thu Aug 30, 2012 07:52
- Location: Exits 9 & 10, M1 East, Melbourne, Australia
- roadtester
- Member
- Posts: 31506
- Joined: Mon Mar 26, 2007 18:05
- Location: Cambridgeshire
Re: "World's highest bridge" opens to traffic in China
Great picture here with the bridge above the clouds:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/pictu ... ijie-china
https://www.theguardian.com/world/pictu ... ijie-china
Re: "World's highest bridge" opens to traffic in China
Here's a nice picture of it unfinished from the valley from July (by Wikimedia Commons user HighestBridges)
"“Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations" Thomas Jefferson
- lefthandedspanner
- Member
- Posts: 718
- Joined: Thu Aug 20, 2015 21:25
- Location: West Yorkshire
Re: "World's highest bridge" opens to traffic in China
Blimey, I bet you get some seriously hairy crosswinds up there!
- roadtester
- Member
- Posts: 31506
- Joined: Mon Mar 26, 2007 18:05
- Location: Cambridgeshire
Re: "World's highest bridge" opens to traffic in China
I thought I'd add this here rather than start a new thread - "Jiangxi province opens twelve new highways":
http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/0106/c90000-9163684.html
Some spectacular pictures of junction architecture!
http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/0106/c90000-9163684.html
Some spectacular pictures of junction architecture!
- Was92now625
- Member
- Posts: 848
- Joined: Fri Jan 08, 2010 00:29
- Location: near A625
Re: "World's highest bridge" opens to traffic in China
Some nice stuff there. Could the 4th picture suffer from 'weaving' ?roadtester wrote:I thought I'd add this here rather than start a new thread - "Jiangxi province opens twelve new highways":
http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/0106/c90000-9163684.html
Some spectacular pictures of junction architecture!