Canada Chronicles
Sunday, October 13, 2019
World’s Largest Sea Crossing
Written by Varshini Thulasiranjan
Geographic Journalist
Hong Kong- The HZMB is the longest sea bridge and was able to happen from a Hong Kong infrastructure called Hopewell Holdings. Manager of HH, Gordon Wu had the idea of a bridge-tunnel linking China, Hong Kong and Macau.
The main bridge is the largest part of HZMB. HZMB connects an artificial land, housing the boundary-crossing facilities for both mainland China and Macau, to the Hong Kong Link Road. Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge spans the LingDing and Jiuzhou channels, connecting Hong Kong, Macau and Zhuhai. Those are the three cities on the Pearl River Delta.
Construction started on December 15, 2009, as it finished on February 6, 2018. The gates to the bridge officially opened on October 24, 2018, with the total cost ended up being quite high. The total cost is 127 billion yuan with a translation of 24 billion Canadian dollars. You can buy the London stadium. Yes, you heard me right. Now with all this money, how did they build it? As you know it was built over the Ling Ding Channels. Two artificial islands link sections of the bridge with a 6.7-kilometre undersea tunnel. The component was prefabricated on production lines and assembled on site. The 150m steel towers were lifted and lowered into the water. 33 tunnel elements were precast in 53 months. The tubes installed and connected all undersea.
This bridge has put an impact on tourists, the impact on the country matters too. The society especially. 70,000 people a day use the bridge, increasing from the grand opening month. But on the weekends, numbers tumble after complaints from local residents. This is from the high traffic but they had a solution to reduce the weekend day-trippers which pay off. The government. People we pay homage to. Some aggregate work mechanism was created and solved some obstacles that came up in the process.
Which made room for any political advances. The economic impact arises from Chui Sai. He states that “the bridge, as well as solving the problem of access by road traffic, will so promote the economic development of the region.” I get it because the bridge is 55km long, most cars will be there so not a lot of traffic will be on the main roads. When it comes to building a land reclamation, environmental risks go up. HZMB has serious risks to the Chinese white dolphins.
This bridge has put an impact on tourists, the impact on the country matters too. The society especially. 70,000 people a day use the bridge, increasing from the grand opening month. But on the weekends, numbers tumble after complaints from local residents. This is from the high traffic but they had a solution to reduce the weekend day-trippers which pay off. The government. People we pay homage to. Some aggregate work mechanism was created and solved some obstacles that came up in the process.
Which made room for any political advances. The economic impact arises from Chui Sai. He states that “the bridge, as well as solving the problem of access by road traffic, will so promote the economic development of the region.” I get it because the bridge is 55km long, most cars will be there so not a lot of traffic will be on the main roads. When it comes to building a land reclamation, environmental risks go up. HZMB has serious risks to the Chinese white dolphins.
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