Jiaoziping Bridge
Jiaoziping Bridge
椒子坪大桥
Wushan, Chongqing, China
500 feet high / 152 meters high
394 foot span / 120 meter span
2012
One of the most spectacular bridges on a highway filled with many great beam bridges, the Jiaoziping Bridge crosses a deep cut high up on the slope of the Xigou River canyon. Located just 8 kilometers east of the giant Daninghe River Bridge on the G42 expressway, Jiaoziping has a span configuration of 5 × 20 + (65 +120 +65) meters. The piers are 93 and 82 meters tall. What makes the Jiaoziping Bridge unnerving is the precariously steep slopes that would seem to be impossible to build on. Yet there they are - two sets of piers, 93 and 82 meters tall, planted into the side of a mountain. The western slope is especially steep with nearly 20 meters of the foundation piles exposed below the bottom of the piers.
There are so many high beam bridges on the G76 as it passes through Guizhou Province that most will have a hard time differentiating one from the other. Duanwuxigou's most outstanding feature are the piers which rise 128 meters above the foundation. They support a main span of 180 meters. Located at kilometer 116 approximately 20 kilometers west of Rongjiang, the bridge has a total length of 872 meters.
Duanwuxigou Bridge satellite image.
