World's Longest Bridge

[Qmx323]

HAHA. No3 Road and Hazelbridge.

Imagine that, but for 40+ km and no where to turn back

[DOHCVTEC]

Originally Posted by Razor Ramon HG

They're buckets of paint.

Larger image below.

Yup those are construction materials, probably before the official opening. In the background you can see the workers and their work trucks.

[Bonjour43MA]

I can see these types of news headlines coming:

"Chinese Triad use bridge to discard bodies"
"Man missing, believed to have set foot onto bridge"
"Accident on bridge trapped commuters for 3 days, many without food or water"


Other than that... I'd LOVE to take a fast car and do a couple round trips over that bridge

[AzNightmare]

Originally Posted by Bonjour43MA

I can see these types of news headlines coming:

"Chinese Triad use bridge to discard bodies"
"Man missing, believed to have set foot onto bridge"
"Accident on bridge trapped commuters for 3 days, many without food or water"


Other than that... I'd LOVE to take a fast car and do a couple round trips over that bridge

[shawn79]

i bet it will collapse within a few years

[xilley]

some reason i read "worlds longest dick"
must be tired just woke up

[RFlush]

Originally Posted by xilley

some reason i read "worlds longest dick"
must be tired just woke up

Well, we know what you were dreaming about.

[Great68]

Originally Posted by LiquidTurbo

^ I don't think its suitable to bridge the two. Keeps BC more 'nature' like if its just a ferry. Besides, i like the ferry!

Having moved to Victoria from the Mainland, I hope a bridge NEVER gets built. The last thing I want is for the island to become some suburb of Vancouver.

[Great68]

Originally Posted by StylinRed

not if they built it up by duncan bay(campbell river)

A bridge in the Northern island would hardly be useful.

1.5 Hour ferry ride vs 8 hour drive...

[versep]

Originally Posted by shawn79

i bet it will collapse within a few years

I guess the Oakland Bay Bridge in San Francisco will collapse within a few years too?

China will send the final four segments of the new Oakland Bay Bridge 6,500 miles to California next month as the 2,050 foot project enters its final phase.
China, a savvy, confident bidder of construction and engineering projects throughout the world is now bringing that experience to bear in the U.S.
According to the Guardian,
...five of the world's top 10 contractors, in terms of revenue, are now Chinese, with likes of China State Construction Engineering Group (CSCEC) overtaking established American giants like Bechtel.
CSCEC has already built seven schools in the US, apartment blocks in Washington DC and New York and is in the middle of building a 4,000-room casino in Atlantic City. In New York, it has won contracts to renovate the subway system, build a new metro platform near Yankee stadium, and refurbish the Alexander Hamilton Bridge over the Harlem river.
Chinese engineering companies have several things going for them:
Financing, companies are mostly state owned and have much easier access to the large sums required in contracting
They transfer Chinese workers who work much more cheaply
They use construction machinery built in China
Because of the large profit margin, they hire globally renown architects to demonstrate they can deliver better designs than anyone else
The main barrier to full Western expansion is seen as cultural, but likely something the Chinese will master with time and experience while doing business in the U.S.
Update: An article was forwarded from Foreign Policy after this post went up this morning and mentions some salient points.

California saved $400 million dollars by going with the Chinese workers who make $12 a day toiling from 7 a.m. till 11 p.m., seven days a week, and sleep in a company dorm room.

So the $400 million estimated saving is largely a result of cheap Chinese labor. But is that a pure saving? If California and/or the United States have no unemployed workers who could make steel or polish it or do fabrications, then it is a pure saving. But last time I looked both California and the United States have close to 10 percent reported unemployment and closer to 15 percent if we count part time workers who want full time work and those who have become discouraged from even looking for work. Now those unemployed workers get some unemployment compensation and their health care has to be paid for by public means if they can't pay it themselves, and the banks have to repossess their homes when they can't make the mortgage payments, and then states and the Feds have to bail out the banks. I can count way over $400 million in unemployment costs pretty quickly and that's without even considering the downward pressure on all wages in the United States that arises from the import of these low wage products in the midst of high unemployment. I mean, I guess we could have had a cheaper Golden Gate Bridge in 1937 if we had just brought over a bunch of Chinese workers to do the job. But that would have defeated the purpose of building the bridge which was a major project in the effort to cut U.S. unemployment in the midst of the Depression.

source: http://www.businessinsider.com/china...sco-bay-2011-6

The fact is, these "for face" super projects rarely fail. If they did, they would lose "face", and that is the whole point.

[CharlieH]

Originally Posted by mmmk

That's crazy...I wonder how long it took them to build that bridge?

probably half the time it's taking bc to build the port mann's replacement

[SpicyToFu]

Seeing how its china, the 3 lanes will have 5 cars across and any gap filled with bikes and mopeds

last time I went to shang-hai(sp?), no one followed the lines on the road

must be smooth to have a top-speed run without any cars

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

What's china's version of "america, fuck yeah?"
"Zhong guo, gan yeh!" ? LOL
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[suboy]

only in china.

[twitchyzero]

Never mind its physical feasibility, did people really think there's a demand to bridge the Georgia Strait?

[Drow]

GREAT BRIDGE OF CHINA

[Nlkko]

Those show-off construction projects aint gonna fall over like your lame jokes. It's cheap or quickly finished because the labor is cheap and abundant. I like it. Chinese Autobahn?

If something like that is going to be built here. It would have one single lane with 2 big ass bike lanes on each side for good measure.

[twitchyzero]

can't tell if it's smog or fog

[asian_XL]

YouTube - ‪

[white_guilt]

Still not as long as the Port Mann bridge, which connects Canada to India.