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The Yangsigang Yangtze River Bridge is a suspension bridge in
Wuhan
Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei Province in the People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the ninth-most populous Chinese city an ...
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Hubei
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China. It opened to traffic on October 8, 2019 and is the
third longest suspension bridge span in the world and overall the longest in China. The bridge spans across the
Yangtze River
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. The bridge is the longest double-deck bridge span in the world and carries motorized vehicles, non-motorized vehicles, and pedestrians on its two decks.
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Retrieved November 16, 2019. The bridge cost CNY ¥8.5 billion (US$1.27 billion) to build.
The bridge connects the
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China
*Hanyang District (漢陽區, 汉阳区, ''Hànyáng Qū''), Wuhan, Hubei
:*Hanyang Arsenal (漢陽兵工廠), founded in 1891 as one of the oldest modern arsenals in Chinese history
:*Hanyang 88 (漢陽八八式步槍), ...
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Wuchang districts. The upper deck has six lanes for vehicles which connect to the
urban expressway system and wide pedestrian walkways on each side of the bridge. The lower deck includes four more motor vehicle lanes that connect to the
city streets, two lanes for non-motorized vehicles, and two more pedestrian walkways. The overall length of the bridge is .
[Sources do not agree on the total length of the structure. The article on the Chinese Wikipedia and the Structurae database list the overall length of the bridge as 4,317.8 meters, while the October 8, 2019 China Daily article gives 4.13 km and the Manitowoc Cranes press release gives 4,134 m.]
See also
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List of bridges in China
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Bridges and tunnels across the Yangtze River
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List of longest suspension bridge spans
The world's longest suspension bridges are listed according to the length of their main span (i.e. the length of suspended roadway between the bridge's towers). The length of main span is the most common method of comparing the sizes of suspen ...
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