Aizhai beam bridge
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This is the Az Beam Bridge. Construction for the bridge began in October 2007
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Based however, in late 2011, which was
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ahead of schedule because it was supposed to be finished mid 2012.
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It is located in the south west south east side of china and there
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is hope Hanan
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china and extended one of the china's main roads,
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E 65 and four MG for lunch.
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The bridge is
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in total has taken just a little over four years to complete.
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The bridge is a beam bridge and suspension bridge because they
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are connected through the tunnel as well as the cable.
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As shown in the picture below
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right,
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the bridge doesn't seem to have a direct person who designed it,
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especially since it was mainly made for the convenience of people driving
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and not so much a tourist attraction.
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It crosses over the d hanging canyon as well as the
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village. Inside the canyon,
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the bridge is mostly made up of steel bars
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and reinforced concrete
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Altogether. The bridge is 3,858 ft long
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1,148 ft high.
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The reason that they built this bridge is because normally
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if you were to take a trip through the mountainous terrain
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from the shower to chat on,
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it would usually take four hours,
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but with this edition, it only takes one hour,
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Mainly due to it being a very new bridge as well as careful construction,
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the bridge has never collapsed although 200 people died while they
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were building it just from accidents of falling off of the bridge
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since a bronze stage statue was built in honor of them,
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people are allowed to walk on the bottom part of the bridge,
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as shown in the picture of wild traffic
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Dricted across the top of the bridge.
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In total, the bridge ended up altogether costing 200 million, 208 million,
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which is today's money is worth about 282 million.
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A side bridge is the world's highest and longest tunnel. Two tunnel bridge
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In total, this bridge has 1,888 lights
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that make the bridge pop out during the night.
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The Brave is commonly known for not only the lights,
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but also the stunt stunt off the side, which include acrobats,
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as well as base jumping.
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The video we're about to show you is in 2012
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and it's the ace high bridge International base jumping contest,
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where 13 countries, including china Germany, great Britain and spain,
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made the event the largest base jumping event in ASia.