Highway Feature of the Week: Yangpu Bridge (杨浦大桥), Shanghai (上海)

Highway Feature of the Week: Yangpu Bridge (杨浦大桥), Shanghai (上海)

16 March 2008 · No Comments

(This is one of a weekly series of posts entitled “Highway Feature of the Week”. The complete collection of Highway Features of the Week is available on a single page, or via a special RSS feed.)

This week takes us to China:

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This is the Yangpu Bridge (杨浦大桥), an 8.4 kilometer bridge which provides a link between Pudong and the Yangpu District of Shanghai.   It is one part of the Inner Ring Road of Shanghai’s freeway system, and it’s center span of just over 600 meters renders it the fourth-largest cable-stayed bridge in the world.

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