Jaunted

Dubai Travel / Architecture / Bridges / → All Tags

Dubai Screaming Out For More Bridges

What do you see in this picture? That's right, only one bridge. A blossoming city like Dubai definitely needs a lot more than one. Or so think developers and even Sheikh Mohammed, who's given a new bridge his seal of approval.

Come 2012, Dubai will be the proud home of the world's largest arch bridge. It will be built to some rather impressive statistics: one mile in length, 670 feet in height, and twelve lanes wide, it'll carry some 4,000 vehicles per hour and will cost a mere $817 million to build.

Work on the mega-bridge is due to start next month but it'll be four years until we can cross it. By which time some other Dubai developer will probably have trumped it with the world's biggest, most colorful and least useful bridge. Just a prediction.

Related Stories:
· Dubai to Build World's Largest Arch Bridge [io9]
· The Incredible Morphing Skyscraper [Jaunted]
· Dubai Travel Stories [Jaunted]

[Photo: Mathias M]