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'''Changhua-Kaohsiung Viaduct''' is the world's second longest bridge.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/04/asia/hong-kong-zhuhai-macau-bridge/index.html|title=The $20 billion 'umbilical cord': China unveils the world's longest sea-crossing bridge|last=Sarah Lazarus|date=6 May 2018|work=CNN|publisher=Turner Broadcasting System|accessdate=6 May 2018}}</ref><ref name="World Atlas">{{cite web |url=http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/20-longest-bridges-in-the-world.html |title=20 Longest Bridges in the world |publisher=World Atlas |access-date=6 February 2017}}</ref><ref name="Strongest">{{cite web |url=http://www.strongestinworld.com/longest-bridges-in-the-world/|title=Top 10 Longest Bridges in the world|publisher=Strongest in the world|access-date=6 February 2017}}</ref> The bridge acts as a viaduct for part of the railway line of the [[Company:Taiwan High Speed Rail|Taiwan High Speed Rail]] network. Over 200 million passengers had been carried over it by December 2012.<ref name="Strongest"/>
==Location==
[[image:THSR 131K+255~134K+651.jpg|thumb|right|The Viaduct is part of the [[Company:Taiwan High Speed Rail|Taiwan High Speed Rail]] system.]]
The bridge goes from Baguashan (八卦山) in Changhua County to Zuoying in Kaohsiung.

==Design==
The bridge is 157,317m (516,132&nbsp;ft) or 97.8 miles in length.<ref name="World Atlas"/> It was completed in 2007.<ref name="Strongest"/> The railway is built across a vast series of viaducts, as they were designed to be [[Earth:Earthquake engineering|earthquake resistant]] to allow for trains to stop safely during a seismic event and for repairable damage following a maximum design earthquake.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lusas.com/case/bridge/taiwan.html |title=Seismic Resistant Viaduct Design for the Taiwan High Speed Rail Project |publisher=[[Software:LUSAS|LUSAS]] |accessdate=28 February 2011}}</ref> Bridges built over known [[Earth:Fault (geology)|fault lines]] were designed to survive fault movements without catastrophic damage.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Martin |first1=Empelmann |last2=Whittaker |first2=David |last3=Los |first3=Eimert |last4=Dorgarten |first4=Hans-Wilhelm |url=http://www.iitk.ac.in/nicee/wcee/article/13_140.pdf |title=Taiwan High Speed Rail Project – Seismic Design of Bridges Across the Tuntzuchiao Active Fault |journal=Proceedings of the 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering |publisher=Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur |year=2004 |accessdate=28 February 2011}}</ref>

==See also==
* List of longest bridges in the world

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