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Sunday, April 8, 2012

Heads up: The bridge that suspends belief

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Source: independent.co.uk - 

World's highest and longest valley suspension bridge opens in China 

After five years in the making, the highest and longest valley suspension bridge in the world opened in southern China's Hunan Province on Saturday. 




The Aizhai suspension bridge, with its main span of 1,176 meters 335m above the ground, links China's Congqing Municipality to Changsha city in Hunan, forming part of an expressway that reduces journey time between the two locations from several days to just eight hours.

Work started on the engineering feat in October 2007 and it has now finally opened to traffic.

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