Thursday, 14 March 2013

Top 10 bridges in the world

10: Runyang Bridge being 35,660m (116,990 ft), it is a road bridge. This bridge is a suspension bridge at south and a cable-stayed bridge at north. This bridge is located in China build in the Yangtze River in Jiangsu Province.



9: Hangzhou Bay Bridge 35,673m (117,037 ft). This bridge is an enormous road that crosses the whole Hangzhou bay in China. It’s construction began in 2003 and was opened 5 years later in 2008, it is the 9th of the list.



8: Beijing-Tianjin Intercity Railway, measuring 35,812m (117,493 ft) it’s the 7th of the list. Now it is known as the Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway.



7: Manchac Swamp bridge 36,710m (120,440 ft). The first of th list outside China, it is located in the USA.



 6: Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, 38,442m (126,122 ft). It is located in the Usa being the number 6 of the list. It is the largest bridge constructed over water.




5. Thailand Beijing Grand Bridge, 49,153m (157,982 ft). Another bridge located in China. It is a high speed rail, having one of the fastest trains in the world passing through it everyday.









 


4. Bang Na Expressrailway. Being 54,000 m (177,000 ft), It has a world record for being the longest road bridge in the world! It is located in Thailand and it's extremely suprising the inmensity of it.





3. Weinan Weihe Grand Bridge, 79,732 m (261,588 ft), 79.7km long! This enormous bridge, located in China is the 3rd on our list.



2. Tianjin Grand Bridge, the 2nd of the list. Located in China. It has a world record for being the second largest bridge in the world. This is because this bridge transports a train through 113km!
113,700 m (373,000 ft) long yet theres someone even longer...



1. The longest bridge in the world, located in China among all it's other amazing structures. It is the Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge! This amazing structure it's 164km long! Located in Beijing-Shangai it has an exacte measure of 164,800 m (540,700 ft) long. This amazing bridge was built in 2010 an posted in the world guinnes record 2011 as the longest bridge. It's still the largest bridge nowdays. This bridge carries through all this distance the longsest railroad in a bridge. 




When is this bridge going to be not the largest one? And by how much?