Apparently China decided it HAD to build the world's longest bridge that crossed a sea. As you can read in the article, it will cut travel times, but at 1.7B was this 22 mile bridge really a smart idea? Well I guess it was since there are no tsunamis or typhoons or earthquakes or hurricanes EVER in China that would send folks driving at milemarker 14 into the sea. I am SURE they thought of that....
China Thursday inaugurated one of the world's longest bridges, which will provide an important new route into Shanghai, state press said.
Presented as the "world's longest sea bridge", the 36-kilometre (22-mile) structure connects Jiaxing city near Shanghai to the port city of Ningbo in the eastern province of Zhejiang.
It is slightly shorter than the 38.4-kilometre Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge in the southern United States, which is often billed as the world's longest.
The 11.8 billion yuan (1.7 billion dollars) bridge cuts the length of the road trip from Shanghai to Ningbo by 120 kilometres, the official Xinhua news agency said.
Construction of the six-lane bridge started in November 2003 in an effort to reduce traffic congestion in the booming area, Xinhua said.\
I would have just wanted assurances that this thing wouldn't be blown over by a hurricane and dump me into the sea. Just saying. Can we get a COVER or something?
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