Stonecutters Bridge
Coordinates: 22 ° 19 ′ 33 ″ N , 114 ° 7 ′ 8 ″ E
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| use | three-lane highway | |
| Crossing of | Rambler channel | |
| construction | Cable-stayed bridge | |
| overall length | 1,596 kilometers | |
| Longest span | 1018 meters | |
| height | 298 meters | |
| Headroom | 73.5 meters | |
| start of building | April 2004 | |
| completion | April 7, 2009 | |
| opening | December 20, 2009 | |
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The Stonecutters Bridge is a 1.6-kilometer cable-stayed bridge that connects the Tsing Yi and Stonecutters Island in Hong Kong .
The bridge is part of Route 8, which connects Sha Tin , Cheung Sha Wan , Tsing Yi, Ma Wan and Lantau Island . Measured by its longest span of just over a kilometer, it is the third longest cable-stayed bridge in the world after the Russky Bridge and the Sutong Bridge . The construction cost was 2.76 billion Hong Kong dollars .
It was opened to traffic on December 20, 2009.
Arup received the Supreme Award from the Institution of Structural Engineers for structural design .
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