The journey from Shaoxing to Shanghai has been halved. The Jiashao Bridge was officially opened to traffic on July 19.
The world's longest and widest multi-tower cable-stayed bridge - Jiashao Bridge and its north-south connection were completed. Once opened to traffic, the journey from Shaoxing, Zhejiang to Shanghai will be shortened by nearly half. The bridge was officially opened to public traffic at 0:00 today and is open to traffic.
The Jiashao Bridge and the north-south connection (Jiashao Cross-River Highway Channel) are located inside the Hangzhou Bay Cross-sea Bridge and connect the Zhajiasu Expressway, Shanghai-Hangzhou Expressway, Hangpu Expressway, and Hangzhou-Ningbo Expressway. , Shangsan Expressway and Shaozhu Expressway, with a total length of 69.5 kilometers. It is constructed according to highway standards and has a design speed of 100 kilometers per hour.
At present, the Jiashao Bridge has achieved 12 technical achievements, obtained 49 invention patents, and innovated 14 construction methods. Among them, the main channel bridge with a total length of 2,680 meters creatively adopts a six-tower single-column cable-stayed design, making it the longest and widest multi-tower cable-stayed bridge in the world. In addition, the Jiashao Bridge has also installed a powerful monitoring system, with a monitoring point every 250 meters. Each monitoring point can rotate 360 ??degrees to achieve supervision without blind spots.