S N A P C H A T Bridging the gap CHINA OUTDOES ITSELF The Sidu River Bridge in Hubei Province in China is about to be surpassed as the world’s highest bridge. The title it has held since 2009 will be bettered by the Beipanjiang Bridge Duge (pictured), also in China, when it opens to traffic later this year with engineers recently completing the project. A bridge’s height is measured as the maximum vertical distance between the ground and the bridge deck and is not to be confused with the world’s tallest bridge, which is measured as the height of the structure itself – a title that still belongs to the Millau Viaduct in France, at 343 metres. The bridge is 565 metres above the Nizhu River Canyon in Guizhou province, spanning some 720 metres, and when the gap between the two sides was joined engineers only had an allowance of five millimetres to play with during the construction.
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