Minpu No. 2 Bridge, Cable-stayed bridge in Minhang District, Shanghai, China
Minpu No. 2 Bridge is a single-tower, two-cable-plane cable-stayed bridge over the Huangpu River carrying both road and rail. Its upper deck, 18 m wide with four lanes, has no sidewalk or cycle path; the lower deck carries the elevated Line 5 metro. The main bridge is 436.55 m long with a 251.4 m main span, and the road-rail combined section runs 3.2 km.
Designed by the Shanghai Urban Construction Design and Research Institute and built by the Wuhan China Railway Bridge Bureau Group, the bridge carries the Shanghai–Hangzhou Highway over the Huangpu. Its upper road deck opened on 21 May 2010; the lower deck for Line 5 of the Shanghai Metro began service on 30 December 2018.
The bridge carries the name Xidu Bridge, or Fengpu No. 2 Bridge, from its crossing at Xidu town in Fengxian District. Its lower deck carries the southern extension of Shanghai Metro Line 5, opened on 30 December 2018. Residents of the Pujiang building complained about train noise during trial runs, so trains cross the bridge at a 20 km/h limit, while passengers have asked for higher speeds.
The upper deck is a four-lane road with no sidewalk or cycle lane, so crossing on foot is not possible; the lower deck carries Line 5 metro trains. Trains run at a 20 km/h limit on the bridge after noise complaints from residents of the Pujiang building.
The metro deck opened only on 30 December 2018, eight years after the road deck above it began carrying traffic in May 2010. Trains on Line 5 are limited to 20 km/h across the span after residents of the Pujiang building complained about noise, while passengers have asked for higher speeds.
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