Japan’s Akashi Kaikyo Bridge

Posted by Yuka as Japan

Japan’s mighty Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, the highest, longest, most expensive suspension bridge on the planet. It stands here to against all knots, and it build a place no bridge should be. Typhoon _ and the _ wind reachs staggering 290 kilometers an hour, that powerful enough to tear rooves and houses and off-root trees. It crosses one of the world busiest and most dangerous shipping lanes.Even worse, it _ in the middle of the major earthquake zone. It’s a bridge they said could never be built.

The _ Akashi bridge carries the huge six lane freeway linking the bustling with Kobe on the mainland with the island Awaji to the south.. For the people of the fishing villages on the rural south island it’s a vital linked hospitals, schools and the city on the mainland. For Japan, it’s a symbol of national pride. The final linked the network of birdges were unite all four islands.

(This provided rapid transportation, rapid access and the opening up of the island Shikoku to business, commerce and tourism.)
It’s a vast _ engineering and hold no less than three world records. At 280 meters is the highest suspension bridge on earth. It’s two towers each stands as taller as 80 stories building, with the central span just over a mile it’s the longest suspension bridge in the world, nearly twice the link the San Francisco’s Golden Gate. And the 4.3 billion dollars is the most expensive bridge ever built.

The water it crosses is the bridge builder’s nightmare. The Akashi Strait is a 4 kilometer barrier of hostile sea that divided the Island Awaji from mainland Japan. Over a hundred meters deep, with currents, the birdge through a 14 kilometers an hour. That’s a some good day. Typhoons regularly taste through the area, _ up winds with a terrify 290 kilometers per hour destroying almost everything in that part. The strait is also one of Japan’s busiest shipping lanes. The main artery that links all four islands. Everyday over a thousand ships _ through the _ crowd waters. Each spring brings even more dangerous, then the fog can goes the channels, hundreds of ships _ here every year.