{"id":96148,"date":"2025-08-27T10:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T10:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/96148\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T10:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T10:57:08","slug":"worlds-tallest-bridge-completes-key-load-bearing-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/96148\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s tallest bridge completes key load-bearing test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in China has undergone a five-day testing process ahead of the scheduled opening in late September. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The load test is the final step before it is considered safe to welcome traffic. A testing team drove 96 trucks onto designated points to test the bridge&#8217;s structural integrity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Rising 625m (2,083ft) above a river in Guizhou province, the bridge will upon completion set the record for both the world&#8217;s tallest bridge and largest span bridge built in a mountainous area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in China has undergone a five-day testing process ahead of the scheduled opening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-96148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}