Chaotianmen Yangtze Bridge
Coordinates: 29 ° 35 ′ 18 " N , 106 ° 34 ′ 34" E
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| Crossing of | Yangtze River | |
| place | Chongqing , People's Republic of China | |
| construction | anchored in itself arch bridge of steel | |
| overall length | 1741 m | |
| width | 36.5 m | |
| Longest span | 552 m | |
| height | 142 m | |
| start of building | 2004 | |
| completion | 2009 | |
| opening | April 30, 2009 | |
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The Chaotianmen-Yangtse Bridge ( Chinese 朝天门 长江 大桥 , Pinyin Cháotiānmén Chángjiāng Dàqiáo ), which crosses the Yangtze River near Chongqing in China, is the arch bridge with the largest span in the world.
The bridge was opened to traffic on April 29, 2009. It is located 1.2 km below the junction of the Jialing Jiang and the Yangtze, where Chaotianmen is located. It has a total length of 1,741 m, of which 932 m is accounted for by the steel structure , the central opening of which has a 552 m span. The entire project, including the access ramps, has a length of 4.8 km.
The two-story bridge bears on the upper deck a six-lane road with two sidewalks , on the lower deck a four-lane road, in whose center strip room for the extension of the line 6 of the U-web of Chongqing Rail Transit is provided.
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- ↑ Xuewei Duan, Xiaoyan Xiao and Wei Xu: Design & technology characteristics of main bridge of Chaotianmen Yangtze River Bridge. China Railway Bridge Reconnaissance & Design Institute Co., Ltd., Wuhan, China. ARCH'10 - 6th International Conference on Arch Bridges
- ↑ Xiang Zhongfu: Chongqing Chaotianmen Yangtze River Bridge on en: chinabridge.org