China's long bridge

Rico's friend Bill forwards this:

Aizhai Bridge in Hunan province is 336 m high and has a 1,176 m span.
It connects two traffic tunnels in the mountains, cutting the time needed to traverse the canyon from thirty minutes to one minute. Construction took five years.
Work finished at the end of 2012, making it the world's longest and highest  suspension bridge.
The bridge, which connects to two tunnels, was built to ease  traffic, but drivers can take in views of the Dehang Canyon. Vehicles motor along a two-way, four-lane motorway, while pedestrians walk along it on a special walkway under the road.

Bill says: note that the person below is eleven hundred feet above the ground, and is sweeping the dirt off this twenty-first century engineering marvel with a broom that was designed centuries ago, with no safety line.
Sandblasting and recoating this steel superstructure in a couple of decades will be an interesting project.

 

 

Rico says it looks a lot like the Golden Gate Bridge, only with no water under it...