Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line

"The Bridge to the Future"opened for traffic on December 18,1997. The road connects Kisarazu City, Chiba Prefecture and Kawasaki City,Kanagawa Prefecture across the Tokyo Bay. To cross the bridge takes 15minutes. They expect 25,000 vehicles a day to use the bridge. This project is called the last and the largest of this century. To finish,it took eight and half years from the start of construction in May,1989 and thirtyone years from the initial plans in 1966. The total cost was about \1,44 trillion for 15.1 kilometers. Divided simply, it cost \100million a meter.

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