"World's highest bridge" opens to traffic in China

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"World's highest bridge" opens to traffic in China

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I hadn't heard of this before but it looks pretty impressive:

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/world ... na-n701531
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That makes Millau look quite tame!
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Like !
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Great picture here with the bridge above the clouds:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/pictu ... ijie-china
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Here's a nice picture of it unfinished from the valley from July (by Wikimedia Commons user HighestBridges)
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Blimey, I bet you get some seriously hairy crosswinds up there!
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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!
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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!
Some nice stuff there. Could the 4th picture suffer from 'weaving' ?
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