{"id":17266,"date":"2013-06-18T08:01:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T04:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=17266"},"modified":"2013-06-18T08:01:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T04:01:01","slug":"worlds-longest-and-widest-cable-bridge-with-a-span-of-seven-miles-is-finally-completed-and-its-in-china-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=17266","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s longest and widest cable bridge with a span of SEVEN miles is finally completed (and it&#8217;s in China, of course)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bridge-in-China2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17264\" alt=\"bridge in China2\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bridge-in-China2.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bridge-in-China2.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bridge-in-China2-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bridge-in-China2-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>The world&#8217;s longest and widest multi-pylon cable-stayed bridge has opened in China after seven years of construction work.<\/p>\n<p>The Jiaxing-Shaoxing Sea Bridge stretches 6.2miles (10 kilometres) over the Hangzhou Bay, in Shaoxing, China.<\/p>\n<p>It is mainly supported by two cable-towers, both of which reach 745ft in the air, and has a main body stretching 2,560ft wide.<\/p>\n<p>The six-lane bridge opened to traffic on May 28th but the final tweaks were made on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The high speed bridge is designed for vehicles travelling exclusively above 60mph and pedestrians, motorbikes and cars with a maximum speed below 45mph are not allowed to cross.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s longest and widest multi-pylon cable-stayed bridge has opened in China after seven years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}