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Bridge in Macau Peninsula and Taipa
Sai Van Bridge
Coordinates22°10′20″N 113°32′10″E / 22.17222°N 113.53611°E / 22.17222; 113.53611
Carries6 lanes of roadway (upper), 2 Macau LRT rail tracks (lower)
CrossesPraia Grande Bay
LocaleMacau Peninsula and Taipa
Official namePonte de Sai Van
Characteristics
DesignCable-stayed bridge
Total length2,200 metres (7,218 ft)
Width28 metres (92 ft)
Longest span180 metres (591 ft)
History
Opened19 December 2004
Statistics
Daily trafficcars
Tollfree
Location
Sai Van Bridge
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese西灣大橋
Simplified Chinese西湾大桥
Literal meaningwest bay bridge
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXīwān Dàqiáo
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingsai1 waan1 daai6 kiu4
Portuguese name
PortuguesePonte de Sai Van

The Sai Van Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge located in Macau, it was inaugurated on December 19, 2004. The bridge measures 2.2 kilometers (1.4 mi) long and is the third one to cross the Praia Grande Bay connecting Taipa Island and Macau Peninsula on Hsiang-shan Island. It features a double-deck design, with an enclosed lower deck to be used in the event of strong typhoons when the other three bridges connecting Taipa and Macau Peninsula, both of which are single-deck, namely Ponte Governador Nobre de Carvalho and Ponte de Amizade, are closed. It is the world's first prestressed concrete double-deck main beam cable-stayed bridge and the world's largest-span double-deck concrete bridge. The lower deck of the bridge also carries the Macau Light Transit System, which started revenue operation almost nineteen years later on 8 December 2023.

See also

References

  1. "Rosário Takes 22 Lawmakers on Their 1st LRT Ride". Macao News. July 30, 2019.
  2. "TDM".
  3. "TDM".

External links

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