China Unveils Longest Road Bridge

[interestrateripoff]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1343004/A-bridge-far-China-unveils-worlds-longest-sea-bridge-miles-FURTHER-Dover-Calais-crossing.html

With an overall length of 42.58km, the route between Qingdao and Huangdao will be shortened by 30km, cutting the travel time by about 20 minutes.

So it cost £5.5bn to build and saves 20 minutes, economically viable?

http://amazingdata.com/the-worlds-longest-cross-sea-bridge/

Edited December 31, 2010 by interestrateripoff

[interestrateripoff]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_bridges_in_the_world

Although listed here the Chinese also have a nice 164km rail bridge!

[gilf]

Not as bad as the M6 Toll. Not sure what it cost, but it's a mile or two longer than the M6 between J4 and J11 and involves a mandatory stop for the tollbooth, thus taking more time than the route it replaced around 90% of the time.

I take it you never travel on the M6 past Birmingham because that is the biggest load of tosh I have ever heard on here.

[cashinmattress]

A pedantic tw@t says:

China Unvails Unveils Longest Road Bridge

[gilf]

Yeah, all the time. OK, there may be 4 hours a day where time savings can be pretty much guaranteed, so take that 90% down to 80%. Even so, it rarely seems worth the £5 to save a few minutes on a 27 mile route, and the point remains that this road does not offer any distance saving.

Fair enough*, I assume you travel by car when you go on holiday to say Spain for example. No point going by plane of course as there is no distance saving

* I have been on the M6 past Birmingham at many different times of day and it is always hideous, I'm more than happy to throw £5 out of the window and then travel at Warp speed whenever I travel up North to see relatives. Wouldn't do it on a daily basis of course but well worth the money if you ask me.

Edited December 31, 2010 by gilf

[Ruffneck]

Looks like it will collapse at any minute

[ken_ichikawa]

They build these things because they are scared of American Printy Printy^9849023842

[interestrateripoff]

A pedantic tw@t says:

Just realised that myself. Just can't get the staff.

[longtomsilver]

Take the guess work out of the M6 and use Traffic England on the interweb to view the traffic cameras. I avoid the M6 on anything but the motorcycle.

[Executive Sadman]

Beautiful structure.

And when hydrogen/electric/some other power source cars come along, we'll still have a crappy road network because of all the nimbys and soap dodgers kept saying it isnt green/sustainable/concreting over little englands green and pleasant land or some other rubbish.

[Errol]

Good way to get rid of US dollars.