HOW LONG IS THE CABLE STAYED sutong bridge IN CHINA?”
The Sutong Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge that spans the Yangtze River in People’s Republic of China between Nantong and Changshu, a satellite city of Suzhou, in Jiangsu province. With a span of 1,088 metres (3,570 ft), it is the cable-stayed bridge with the longest main span in the world. It’s two side-spans are 300 metres (984 ft) each, and there are also four small cable spans. Two towers of bridge are 306 metres (1,004 ft) high and thus second tallest in the world. Overall the bridge length is 8,206 metres (26,923 ft). Construction began in June 2003 and bridge was linked up in June 2007. The bridge was opened to traffic on May 25, 2008 and was officially opened on the 30th June, 2008. Construction has been estimated to cost about US$1.7 billion. The completion of the bridge makes the commute between Shanghai and Nantong, originally completed through ferry route, shorten to about an hour. It brings Nantong one step closer to becoming an important part of the Yangtze River Delta ec
