| For those people commenting on the bridge making the distance to Ningbo shorter: I won't. This bridge will only go to Yangshan Island, although there are vage plans to continue it to Ningbo aswell.
However, a second equally long bridge is also currently under construction, the Hangzhou Bay Bridge. This one will cross the Hangzhou Bay and therefore shorter the distance between Shanghai and Ningbo with about 150 kilometers. Unfortunately Shanghai government didnt allow the northend of the bridge to be build closer to Shanghai, otherwise it would have shortened the distance even more. What I also don't understand at all is the Donghai Bridge. Why limit this bridge to trucks? Trucks are slow to load and expensive for transportation. It would probably be handier if they would have made the bridge wider, or give it an extra layer. This could then be used to add a railway to and from Shanghai and Hangzhou, making transport time much shorter. |
Donghai Bridge