Shenzhen-Zhongshan Passage Officially Opens, Revolutionizing Bay Area Transportation
TapTechNews Jun 30, according to the report of the Southern+ client, the opening ceremony of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Cross-River Passage (referred to as the 'Shenzhen-Zhongshan Passage') was held on the West Artificial Island of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Passage. At about 10:50, the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Passage was officially opened and will be put into trial operation at 3 pm.
As the only direct highway connection passage between the Shenzhen-Dongguan-Huizhou and the Zhuhai-Zhongshan-Jiangmen urban agglomerations, the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Passage is the 'key horizontal stroke' of the A-shaped transportation network skeleton at the Pearl River Estuary. After the opening of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Passage, the car journey time between Shenzhen and Zhongshan is shortened from two hours to less than half an hour. In the future, it will only take 15 minutes from Nansha, Guangzhou to Zhongshan, and the travel time from Zhuhai and Jiangmen to Shenzhen is shortened from more than 2 hours to less than 1 hour, creating a new pattern of transportation development in the Bay Area.(Approximately 37.02 Kilometers).
According to the WeChat public account 'Shenzhen-Zhongshan Passage Release', the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Passage integrates bridges, islands, tunnels and underwater interchanges, with a total length of about 24 kilometers (Approximately 14.91 miles). It is about 30 kilometers (Approximately 18.64 miles) north of the Humen Bridge and about 31 kilometers (Approximately 19.26 miles) south of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. It starts from the Shenzhen Airport Interchange, crosses the Lingdingyang Sea Area to the west, connects with the Nanzhong Expressway through the Wanqingsha Interchange, and lands on Ma'an Island in Zhongshan City to dock with the Zhongkai Expressway.
TapTechNews learned from the query that the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Passage has gone through 7 years of construction, including the world's largest cross-span all-offshore steel box girder suspension bridge with a main span of 1,666 meters, and the world's first two-way eight-lane steel shell concrete immersed tunnel with a length of 6.8 kilometers. It is one of the most comprehensively difficult cross-sea cluster projects in the world at present, and is known as the 'Great Wall under the Sea'.
In addition, the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Passage has refreshed many world records. It is the tallest navigable clearance sea-crossing bridge in the world; the largest cross-span all-offshore steel box girder suspension bridge in the world; the tallest wind-resistant grade steel box girder suspension bridge in the world; the world's largest undersea anchor; the world's first two-way eight-lane steel shell concrete immersed tunnel; the longest and widest undersea steel shell concrete immersed tunnel in the world...
The toll standard for the whole line of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Passage is $10 (US Dollars) per standard vehicle. After the opening of the passage, the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Passage will also strictly implement a series of preferential policies and measures issued by the state and Guangdong Province, including免收通行费 for 7-seat and below small passenger cars on major holidays, 'green channels' free for fresh agricultural products transportation, 5% discount on ETC vehicle tolls, etc.