Jingyue Bridge

29.544862113.22410419Koordinaten: 29 ° 32 ' 41.5 "N, 113 ° 13' 26.8 " E

S49 Suiyue Expressway

Yangtze River

The Jingyue Bridge (Chinese荆 岳 大桥, Pinyin Jingyue Daqiao ) is a cable-stayed bridge about 130 km south-east of Jingzhou, which leads the six -lane expressway S49 Suiyue of Hubei Province on the Yangtze River in Hunan Province. Opened in June 2010, building is distinguished by the different high pylons. The bridge is one with 826 meter span of the ten cable-stayed bridges with the largest span in the world and is considered the longest bridge with ordinary H- pylons.

The cable-stayed bridge is 1,444 meters long and extends from the eastern shore only to two-thirds over the river. The bridge portion north of the main opening is 398 meters long, the southern 230 meters. The bridge has two pylons on different levels: the larger is roughly in the middle of the river and measures 265.5 meters, the smaller is on the south shore and is 224.5 meters high.

On both sides of the cable stayed close to plate girder bridges, which give the entire bridge has a length of about 4600 meters. It is part of a 5419 -meter-long highway section, which also includes the two toll booths. Before the construction of the bridge, all traffic through the 600 meters downstream lying Daorenji Changjiang ferry had to be overcome.