The world’s longest bridge is due to open on Wednesday. But not everyone can use it.
Only 9200 (estimated) vehicles will use it daily.
Dartford bridge sees that volume on a hourly basis.
Wonder if it will get closed on windy days.
bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-45937924
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lizard:
The world’s longest bridge is due to open on Wednesday. But not everyone can use it.
Only 9200 (estimated) vehicles will use it daily.
Dartford bridge sees that volume on a hourly basis.
Wonder if it will get closed on windy days.
bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-45937924Sent from the world we live in
What a biased and poorly informed article. What is the BBC’s problem here?
Honk Kong is a small very densely populated area with fastastic and cheap public transport. They champion great public transport at every opportunity and use various methods to discourage car ownership because the place would come to a standstill.
Very cleverly with this bridge they decided not to have thousands of cars driving in with nowhere to go or park but to bus people in instead.
Big car parks on Chinese mainland side and public shuttle bus departures every few minutes and massive rail and bus connections at the Hong Hong terminus.
Bridge is completely open to trucks and thousands of containers are expected to be carried every day.
They finished it in 9 years for less than one third the cost of latest H2S estimates.
The fatality rate in UK construction is 39 per annum versus 1 fatality per annum on the Hong Kong half of this bridge.
I have no idea if it is a good bridge or not but a guy I meet in the pub occasionally and lots of other Brits apparently are down there for years running the job. I guess they’ll be wrapping up and on their way home now.
Why a lazy BBC journalist would do a hatched job on the Wikipedia article to write this is hard to figure.
Fake news sells I guess or is it to stop the British public getting feisty over government incompetence on large building projects…and the rest?
If news information is correct there should be some fun, it seems you need extra motor insurance to drive in the bridge, and finally in honkers they drive on the left, but in mainland China they drive on the right. So there should be some interesting things going on
Prob isnt finished and never will open.i say that after having a holiday in N.China i visited “the lily tower” in Shenyang vast green glass tower a real tourist attraction, loads about it on the net -
but get up close its closed inside all broken furniture covered in dust.
later took a bus ride to the famous hanging gardens ,but get this everything is dead and all the kiosks boarded up
Hurryup&wait:
lizard:
The world’s longest bridge is due to open on Wednesday. But not everyone can use it.
Only 9200 (estimated) vehicles will use it daily.
Dartford bridge sees that volume on a hourly basis.
Wonder if it will get closed on windy days.
bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-45937924Sent from the world we live in
What a biased and poorly informed article. What is the BBC’s problem here?
Honk Kong is a small very densely populated area with fastastic and cheap public transport. They champion great public transport at every opportunity and use various methods to discourage car ownership because the place would come to a standstill.
Very cleverly with this bridge they decided not to have thousands of cars driving in with nowhere to go or park but to bus people in instead.
Big car parks on Chinese mainland side and public shuttle bus departures every few minutes and massive rail and bus connections at the Hong Hong terminus.
Bridge is completely open to trucks and thousands of containers are expected to be carried every day.
They finished it in 9 years for less than one third the cost of latest H2S estimates.
The fatality rate in UK construction is 39 per annum versus 1 fatality per annum on the Hong Kong half of this bridge.
I have no idea if it is a good bridge or not but a guy I meet in the pub occasionally and lots of other Brits apparently are down there for years running the job. I guess they’ll be wrapping up and on their way home now.
Why a lazy BBC journalist would do a hatched job on the Wikipedia article to write this is hard to figure.
Fake news sells I guess or is it to stop the British public getting feisty over government incompetence on large building projects…and the rest?
Surely you are as bad as the bbc by not mentioning the other 17 who died?