GUANGDONG'S HUANGMAOHAI CROSS-SEA PASSAGE, WORLD'S LARGEST THREE-TOWER CABLE-STAYED HIGHWAY BRIDGE, OPENS TO TRAFFIC, CUTTING TRAVEL TIME BETWEEN ZHUHAI AND JIANGMEN TO 30 MINUTES

ZHUHAI, China, Dec 13 (Bernama) -- The Huangmaohai Link, a new major cross-sea passage project in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, went into trial operation on December 11. This project, designed as a two-way, six-lane expressway with a speed limit of 100 kilometers per hour, runs about 31 kilometers from Pingsha Town in the city of Zhuhai to Doushan Town in the city of Taishan, part of Jiangmen. Upon operation, the journey time between the two cities will be reduced from more than one hour to around 30 minutes.
 
As the western extension of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the passage began construction in June 2020 and passed its acceptance inspection in November 2024. It encompasses two main bridges, namely the Gaolan Port Bridge and the Huangmaohai Bridge, the world's longest three-tower cable-stayed highway design bridge. By connecting Hong Kong and Macao through the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the passage offers the impressive scenery of slender-waisted towers on the sea and flocks of gracefully flying egrets. Beyond that, it leads tourists to such attractions of Jiangmen as age-old watchtowers and eco-friendly Birds' Paradise, a wetland park, where they can find their way to local eateries providing seafood.