Nanjing Baguazhou Yangtze River Bridge

Nanjing Baguazhou Yangtze River Bridge

南京八卦洲长江大桥
Nanjing Baguazhou Yangtze River Bridge; 南京八卦洲长江大桥
Coordinates	32°09′45″N 118°50′10″E / 32.16258°N 118.836196°E
Carries	G36 and G104
Crosses	Yangtze River
Locale	Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Characteristics
Design	Cable-stayed
Total length	1,238 m (4,062 ft)
Width	37.2 m (122 ft)
Height	195.41 m (641 ft)
Longest span	628 m (2,060 ft)
History
Construction start	October 1997
Construction cost	$400 million
Opened	March 2001
Statistics
Toll	yes
Location

The Nanjing Baguazhou Yangtze River Bridge, formerly Second Nanjing Yangtze Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge over the Yangtze River in Nanjing, China.^[2] The bridge spans 628 metres (2,060 ft) carrying traffic on the G36 Nanjing–Luoyang Expressway and new route of China National Highway 104. When it was completed it was the third longest cable-stayed span in the world.^[3] As of 2013^[update] it is still among the 20 longest spans. The bridge crosses from the Qixia District in south-east of the river over to Bagua Island. The bridge was renamed on 20 December 2019.^[4]

References[edit]

^ "Construction Facts - The Sourcebook of Statistics, Records and Resources" (PDF), Engineering News Record, vol. 251, Number 20a, McGraw Hill, November 2003, archived (PDF) from the original on 4 September 2014, retrieved 9 August 2014
^ Second Nanjing Yangtze Bridge at Structurae. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
^ "Second Nanjing Yangtze Bridge Has Its Two Sections Joined". Archived from the original on 2013-12-23. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
^ "定了！二桥三桥四桥成历史，南京5条过江通道更名！". 2019-12-20. Retrieved 2020-06-05.

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