The World’s Longest Cable-stayed Bridge In Photos

April 25th, 2007

The Sutong Changjiang Highway Bridge over the Yangtze River is going to be the world’s longest cable-stayed bridge and also one with the world’s tallest cable towers when it is finished in 2008.

The bridge lies in between Nantong farm and Xuliujing in Suzhou, it is 280 km away from Nanjing in the west and 100 km away from the sea entrance of the Yangtze river in the east.

The total length of the bridge is 7600 meters, the main span of the two-tower cable-stayed bridge is 1088 meters, it can satisfy the all-weather passage of ships with the No. 4 and No. 5 containers. The bridge will be designed according to 6-lane highway standard. The designed speed is at 100 km/h.

Because the main span is 198 meters wide than Japan’s Tatara Bridge, it is also 70 meters wide than Hong Kong’s cable-stayed bridge which is under design, so it will become world’s largest cable-stayed bridge during quite a long period of time.