Jingyue Bridge
Coordinates: 29 ° 32 ′ 42 " N , 113 ° 13 ′ 27" E
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| Convicted | S49 Suiyue Expressway | |
| Subjugated | Yangtze River | |
| place | Jianli , Yunxi | |
| construction | Cable-stayed bridge | |
| Longest span | 816 m | |
| opening | 2010 | |
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| Above sea level | 19 m | |
The Jingyue Bridge ( Chinese 荊 岳 大橋 , Pinyin Jīngyuè Dàqiáo ) is a cable-stayed bridge about 130 km southeast of Jingzhou , which leads the six-lane Suiyue Expressway S49 from Hubei Province over the Jangtsekiang to Hunan Province . The structure, which opened in June 2010, is characterized by the pylons of different heights . With a span of 826 meters, the bridge is one of the ten cable-stayed bridges with the largest spans in the world and is the longest bridge with conventional H-pylons.
The cable-stayed bridge is 1,444 meters long and only reaches two thirds over the river from the eastern bank. The bridge part north of the main opening is 398 meters long, the southern 230 meters. The bridge has two pylons of different heights: the larger one stands roughly in the middle of the river and measures 265.5 meters, the smaller one stands on the southern bank and is 224.5 meters high.
On both sides of the cable-stayed bridge, T-beam bridges connect , which give the entire bridge a length of approximately 4600 meters. It is part of a 5419-meter-long section of expressway that also includes the two toll booths. Before the bridge was built, all traffic had to be handled by the Daorenji – Changjiang ferry, 600 meters downstream.
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- ↑ Eric Sakowski: China 2012 Bridge Trip. In: HighestBridges.com. Retrieved February 23, 2014 .