Cable-Stayed Bridges - Ting Kau Bridge

The Ting Kau Bridge is a unusual cable-stayed structure across Rambler Channel in Hong Kong, China. It has three single-legged towers (560 ft, 640 ft, 520 ft) that are stabilized with transverse cables above and below the deck. Moreover, the central tower is supported by extremely long (1530 ft) cables extending to the far towers. The extra cables are to help resist the strong winds and typhoon loads that blow through the channel.

This bridge also carries the highest daily traffic in Hong Kong and the largest number of container trucks between Mainland China and the container port in Hong Kong. It is a six lane bridge built in 1988 with a total length of 3864 ft and with main spans of 1470 ft and 1560 ft.

Driving across the bridge, one is struck by the hundreds of container ships waiting to enter the port. Also, by the distinctive yellow on the steel anchorages at the top of the towers and on the steel girder superstructure.

Cable-Stayed Bridges - Ting Kau Bridge by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.