Incredible £111m bridge makes drivers feel like they're flying in the clouds

Standing arrogant astatine a dizzying 565m supra crushed and often looking down into the clouds, the Beipanjiang Bridge is an engineering masterpiece which is said to person outgo a staggering £111 million

If you've got a fearfulness of heights, you mightiness privation to look distant now. Soaring into the heavy grey clouds and bound to marque your knees weak, the Beipanjiang Bridge is possibly 1 of the top engineering masterpieces successful the world. Located connected the borderline betwixt the provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan in China, this cable-stayed span crosses implicit the Beipan River and has made a erstwhile gruelling travel done twisting steep roads a breeze (if you don't look down).

Standing astatine a dizzying 565 meters supra China's distant south-west mountains, the Beipanjiang Bridge, besides known arsenic the Duge Bridge, is officially the world's tallest bridge, the archetypal span to ever surpass the 500-m tallness barrier, and the archetypal cable-stayed span to ever clasp the rubric of the world's highest bridge. Opened to drivers connected 29 December 2016, the span consists of 4 lanes and runs for a full magnitude of 1,341 metres. Just ideate having to overtake erstwhile each you tin spot is cloud...

For many, the suspension span inactive seems similar an intolerable feat - 1 that showcases the bonzer engineering quality of China. According to section reports backmost erstwhile the span archetypal opened, the mega-high operation outgo much than 1 cardinal Yuan (more than £111 cardinal if converted today) and took astir 3 and a fractional years of 'intense' work.

After societal media users were taken aback by the bridge's sheer size and height, the Beipanjiang Bridge has go somewhat of a tourer attraction - with travellers from each implicit the satellite investigating their tummy by going connected the crossing. But, the span isn't conscionable China flexing its brainsick operation skills, oregon for adrenaline-seekers. Residents person hugely benefited from its opening. It utilized to instrumentality astir 2 and a fractional hours to thrust from Pingtang County to Luodian County. Crossing the Pingli RIver Valley would person taken a further 50 minutes. Now, that travel is astir 2 minutes.

Liu Hao is an technologist moving for the Huajiang Valley Bridge, Guizhou Bridge Construction Group. Speaking to The Times, they said: "Imagine however it was without the bridge. We had to spell on the twisting upland roadworthy to transport caller section products. It took a time and the products would each rot connected the way." As ludicrous arsenic it sounds, determination whitethorn beryllium a aboriginal wherever the Beipanjiang Bridge doesn't adjacent look successful the league tables astatine all. According to the Express, the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge successful Guizhou, China, is slated to unfastened adjacent twelvemonth - and volition basal astatine a staggering 624m high.

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