Bridge

China is trying to figure out a way of linking road traffic in Hong Kong with road traffic on the mainland. No problem, right? You just build a bridge, link up some roads, and Mao's your uncle. Right?

Erm... not right. Thing is, see, in Hong Kong they drive on the left, and in China they drive on the right - so you'd have to figure out a way of getting the two lanes of traffic to cross over each other somewhere in between the island and the mainland. Somewhere like...

the middle of the sea?

That's the idea being floated by a team of lateral/literal-thinking architects. Their proposed twisty bridge has prompted Gizmodo to ask: Is This The Craziest Bridge Ever Designed?"




To which one of the commenters on the story replied: "No."

Because this beauty will take some beating if it's going to loosen its grip on the Crazy Bridge World Championship Title.




The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel originally combined (it says here on Wikipedia, which I've just copy/pasted) twelve miles (19.3 km) of trestle, two one mile long (1.6 km) tunnels, four artificial islands, two bridges, approximately two miles (3.2 km) of causeway and 5.5 miles (8.8 km) of approach roads — meaning that it crosses the Chesapeake Bay and still manages to preserve traffic on the Thimble Shoals and Chesapeake shipping channels.

Now that's a crazy bridge.