Second Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge, Cable-stayed road bridge in Wuhu, China.
The Second Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge is a cable-stayed structure that stretches more than 13 km to connect both banks of the river. Tall towers support massive steel cables that hold up the roadway and allow multiple lanes of traffic to cross.
Construction of this bridge was completed in 2017, fulfilling a long-standing need for direct connection between Wuhu's northern and southern districts. It marked an important step in developing the transportation network along the Yangtze River.
The bridge carries the Chaohu–Huangshan Expressway across the Yangtze between Wuwei County on the north bank and Sanshan District and Fanchang County on the south. Its name follows the local practice of numbering Yangtze crossings at Wuhu, this being the second after the 2000 Wuhu Yangtze River Bridge 32.5 km downstream. The crossing point is Jitou Mountain.
The bridge carries the Chaohuang Expressway on a six-lane deck between the Wuwei East and Sanshan interchanges, with four lanes on the approach sections. The shipping clearance under the main span is 32 metres. The route runs from Shijian in Wuwei across the river at Jitou Mountain to Eshan in Fanchang County.
The main span of 806 metres made it one of the longest cable-stayed bridges in the world when it opened in December 2017. Its deck is a separated steel box girder carried by four cable planes, and the two towers rise 262.48 metres above the water.
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