The construction consortium of the fourth Macau-Taipa bridge project yesterday held a ceremony marking last Tuesday’s completion of connecting the bridge’s entire section.
The bridge has been fully connected after constructors completed joining its southern main span on Tuesday last week, which came after they completed linking its northern main span early last month.
The completion of connecting the fourth Macau-Taipa bridge’s two main spans means that the bridge has now been fully linked up.
The 3,085-metre-long bridge will have eight vehicular lanes – four in each direction. One lane in each direction will be for motorcycles only.
The fourth Macau-Taipa bridge will connect the Zone A and Zone E1 land reclamation areas, which are both new urban areas neither of which currently has inhabitants.
The government has said that the fourth Macau-Taipa bridge project is now scheduled to be completed in the next quarter.
Public Works Bureau (DSOP) Director Lam Wai Hou reaffirmed during yesterday’s ceremony that all road-network projects connected to the bridge on both the peninsula and Taipa sides will be completed before the end of this month.
The bridge project has a price tag of 5.27 billion patacas. In addition, according to the DSOP website, the bridge’s respective road-network projects on both sides have an additional price tag of around 1.4 billion patacas in total.
Lam said yesterday that the completion of connecting the bridge’s entire section shows that the project has now entered the stage of setting up the bridge’s various auxiliary structures after the main structure’s completion.
Lam underlined that since the fourth Macau-Taipa bridge project got off the ground on March 26, 2020, the construction of its main structure had been affected by various adverse factors making it difficult for constructors to carry out their work, such as adverse weather, the complexity of geological conditions, restrictions implemented for air-navigation safety and maritime transport, as well as the implementation of COVID-19 curbs aiming to bring community outbreaks under control during the three-year pandemic between early 2020 and late 2022.
The government has still to announce the name and operational start of the new bridge.
Guests such as Public Works Bureau (DSOP) Director Lam Wai Hou (centre) yesterday marks the completion of the 4th Macau-Taipa bridge’s entire section. – Photo courtesy of TDM
