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People's Republic of China 19 July 2024 Road bridge Collapse due to flooding at least 38 killed, 24 missing As a result of heavy rainfall, a section of the highway bridge collapsed. [186] Road bridge of Yakang expressway Ganzi, Sichuan: People's Republic of China 3 August 2024 Road concrete bridge Collapse due to mudslide 5 missing
The Duge Bridge (), also called the Beipanjiang Bridge, is a four-lane cable-stayed bridge on the border between the provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan in China. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It spans the deep gorge of the Nizhu River (a tributary of the Beipan ), near the town of Duge.
The bridge was designed to handle 55 tons, but the combined weight of heavy trucks, amounting to at least 500 tons, caused the bridge to collapse. The collapse was blamed mostly on the construction design and on the project's having been finished too quickly and on traffic controllers having allowed, onto the bridge, vehicles of excessive ...
The Beipanjiang Bridge suspends nearly 2,000 feet above the Beipan river, and extends 2,300 feet between China's mountains. When the construction is completed, the extension will cut the travel ...
Guangzhou, on the delta of the Pearl River is one of China’s busiest seaports. The Lixinsha Bridge is located in the Nansha district was at the time the fastest growing port of southern China. [2] [3] Local authorities said that reinforcement work, including constructing "collision avoidance facilities" at four bridge piers, had been ...
The Huajiang Canyon Bridge (Chinese: 花江峡谷大桥), is a suspension bridge under construction in Guizhou province, China. The bridge crosses the Beipan River as it passes through the deep Huajiang Canyon. Upon completion, it will be the world's highest bridge, measuring 625 metres (2,051 ft) from the bridge deck to the bottom of the gorge.
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The Texas Department of Transportation had been scheduled in the summer of 2025 to begin construction on a project to replace the bridge with a new one. The project was estimated to cost $194 million.