Pingtang Bridge - Revision history

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-A viewing platform will be located here.  Image by Eric Sakowski / HighestBridges.com
+A viewing platform is located here.  Image by Eric Sakowski / HighestBridges.com
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-With Guizhou having more high bridges then any other region on earth, few might not have noticed the mountainous Chinese Province never really had a giant "viaduct" like the Millau Bridge in France.  That will all change in 2019 when the Pingtang Bridge opens as the second largest viaduct in the world with the second tallest bridge structure ever built at 332 meters.  Originally called the Caoduhe Bridge after the river it crosses, this gargantuan structure will have two back to back cable stayed spans of 550 meters supported on three of the world's tallest bridge towers measuring 332, 320 and 298 meters.
+With Guizhou having more high bridges then any other region on earth, few might not have noticed the mountainous Chinese Province never really had a giant "viaduct" like the Millau Bridge in France.  That all changed in 2019 when the Pingtang Bridge opened as the second largest viaduct in the world with the second tallest bridge structure ever built at 332 meters.  Originally called the Caoduhe Bridge after the river it crosses, this gargantuan structure will have two back to back cable stayed spans of 550 meters supported on three of the world's tallest bridge towers measuring 332, 320 and 298 meters.
 Like many wide river valleys in Guizhou, the first plans of a bridge crossing of the Caodu River revolved around suspension bridge schemes with a main span between 1,100 to 1,400 meters.  But unlike most wide river valleys in Guizhou, the terrain in the center of the Caodu valley rose considerably from the river level up to a small ridge or hill midway between the high sides of the canyon.  This small hill meant that a tower could be placed in the center of the valley and allow a multi-span cable stayed design to work in a manner not unlike the Chishi Bridge in nearby Hunan Province.  The deck is at 891 meters elevation over the river surface which is at 586 meters during normal river flow.
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 With so much attention being paid to the three skyscraping support towers, the designers made considerable effort to give these structures a dynamic sculptural quality that emphasize a slimmer profile with less bulk one might expect from such a large mass of concrete.
-Also not to be overlooked on the Pingtang to Luodian expressway is the spectacular Daxiaojing Bridge that will have Guizhou's longest arch span of 450 meters when it is completed in 2019.
+Also not to be overlooked on the Pingtang to Luodian expressway is the spectacular Daxiaojing Bridge that had Guizhou's longest arch span of 450 meters at the time when it was completed in 2019.
 Click on the excellent YouTube channel "Chinese Bridge" to see a video of the Pingtang Bridge.

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 Pingtang Bridge satellite image.
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