More bridges to be built on Yangtze River
( 2003-11-08 14:11) (Xinhua)
Wuhan, the most important industrial city on the middle reaches of the
Yangtze River, has started construction of a suspension bridge on the river.
An official with the headquarters for ring road construction of Wuhan
City said that the bridge would be 30 kilometers downstream from Wuhan Pass, an
important hydrological monitoring station in Wuhan City proper.
The suspension bridge, the first of the kind in Wuhan City, will be 10
kilometers long with a main span of 1,280 meters, and will have six lanes, with
a designed maximum speed of 120 km per hour. It will cost 2 billion yuan (about
241 million US dollars).
The bridge will be an important part of the city's 128-km outer ring road,
said the official.
Another highway-railway bridge, with an investment of 12.8 billion yuan
(about 1.54 billion US dollars), will also start construction at Tianxingzhou of
Yangluo to the east of Wuhan late this month, according Li Xiansheng, mayor of
Wuhan.
There are already four bridges across the Yangtze in Wuhan City which is
divided by the river and its tributary Hanshui into three parts -- Wuchang,
Hankou and Hanyang.
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