Width 34.8 m (114 ft) Opened 25 November 2012 Bridge type Suspension bridge | Height 192 m (630 ft) Total length 2,940 m Province Jiangsu Body of water Yangtze | |
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Design north bridge: suspension bridgesouth bridge: box-girder bridge Longest span north bridge: 1,080 m (3,540 ft) x2south bridge: 125 m (410 ft)x5 Similar Runyang Yangtze River Brid, Jiangyin Yangtze River Brid, Sutong Yangtze River Brid, Fourth Nanjing Yangtze, Third Nanjing Yangtze | ||
The Taizhou Yangtze River Bridge is a bridge complex over the Lower Yangtze River in Jiangsu Province in eastern China. The bridge connects Taizhou on the north bank, Yangzhong on an island in the river, and Yaoqiao Village of Zhenjiang Municipality on the south bank, and consists of a suspension bridge across the north branch stream and a pair of box-girder bridges across the south branch stream. Taizhou Bridge Complex opened in 2012.
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Bridge components
Altogether the Taizhou Bridge construction project was 62.088 km (38.580 mi) long. The north bridge is 6,821 m (22,379 ft), including a three-tower suspension bridge with a pair of 1,080 m (3,540 ft) suspension spans, and 4,661 m (15,292 ft) of connecting approaches. The south bridge is 2,905 m (9,531 ft) with box-girder spans of 85+125x3+85 = 545 m (1,788 ft) and 85+125x2+85=420 m (1,380 ft). The north bank has 8 km (5.0 mi) of connecting highway. Yangzhong Island has 2.94 km (1.83 mi) of highway and the south bank has 40 km (25 mi) of connecting highway.
The north bridge's double suspension spans are among the longest in the world.
Awards
The bridge won the 2013 Institution of Structural Engineers Supreme Award for structural engineering and the 2014 IABSE Outstanding Structure Award.