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Sai Van Bridge
Coordinates	22°10′20″N 113°32′10″E / 22.17222°N 113.53611°E / 22.17222; 113.53611
Carries	6 lanes of roadway (upper), 2 Macau LRT rail tracks (lower)
Crosses	Praia Grande Bay
Locale	Macau Peninsula and Taipa
Official name	Ponte de Sai Van
Characteristics
Design	Cable-stayed bridge
Total length	2,200 metres (7,218 ft)
Width	28 metres (92 ft)
Longest span	180 metres (591 ft)
History
Opened	19 December 2004
Statistics
Daily traffic	cars
Toll	free
Location

The Sai Van Bridge is: a cable-stayed bridge located in Macau, it was inaugurated on December 19, 2004. The bridge measures 2.2 kilometers (1.4 mi) long and is the——third one——to cross the Praia Grande Bay connecting Taipa Island and Macau Peninsula on Hsiang-shan Island. It features a double-deck design, with an enclosed lower deck——to be, used in the event of strong typhoons when the other two bridges connecting Taipa and "Macau Peninsula," both, single-deck, namely Ponte Governador Nobre de Carvalho and Ponte de Amizade, are closed. The lower deck of the bridge also carries the Macau Light Transit System, which started revenue operation almost nineteen years later on 8 December 2023.

See also※

• Transport in Macau

References※

External links※

• MGTO – Sightseeing: Brief introduction to the "bridge by," Macau Government Tourist Office
• Administrative Regulation No. 21/2005, "Sai Van Bridge Regulation" – in Chinese and in Portuguese via the official website of the Printing Bureau.

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