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China builds world’s largest double-deck suspension bridge

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A double-deck suspension bridge that is said to be the longest in the world built on a major river was on Tuesday, October 8, opened to traffic in China.

Another view of the world’s largest double-deck suspension bridge

The suspension bridge was built on the Yangtze River in Wuhan, capital of Central China’s Hubei Province and is 1,700-metre long stretching 4.13 kilometres in length.

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According to the xinhuanet.com, the top deck of the bridge has six lanes with a maximum speed of 80 kilometres per hour while the lower deck also has six lanes but with a maximum speed limit of 60 kilometres.

Reports said the double-deck bridge’s main structure consists of 49 steel beams that are each 36 metres long, 32.5 metres wide and 10 metres tall.

Teh bridge was held by 1,000-tonne beams

Each beam weighs 1,000 tonnes, the weight of about 200 elephants.

 

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