If you lot await at the Jiaozhou Bay bridge inwards the Chinese urban essence of Qingdao measures 41.5 km , a footling to a greater extent than than 3 km longer than the Causeway. But Causeway’s officials debate that closed to of that length comes due to a crimp inwards the bridge. The actual distance traversed past times the couplet over H2O is exclusively nearly 25 km.
The Guinness World Records , which had already demoted the Causeway to No.2 , decided that the best means to bargain amongst the province of affairs was to exercise a novel category. Now the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the "longest couplet over H2O (continuous)" piece the Jiaozhou Bay couplet is the "longest couplet over H2O (aggregate)."
The Causeway’s officials were relieved to convey their championship dorsum , simply non content. Causeway General Manager Carlton Dufrechou said they tin fifty-fifty challenging Jiaozhou's aggregate length claim.
"The Qingdao Bridge curves as well as has iii entry/exit points ,” Dufrechou told Guinness. “We empathize that all iii legs of the couplet were included inwards the calculation of its cumulative length of 26.4 miles. The Causeway is truly 2 parallel bridges of 24 miles each amongst an aggregate length of 48 miles. The Qingdao's longest , hollo for to hollo for (direct) distance over H2O appears to survive nearly xvi miles. The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway's straight , hollo for to hollo for overwater distance is 24 miles."
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway’s championship volition in all likelihood remain prophylactic for at to the lowest degree a few years to come upwards , if non decades. The Jiaozhou Bay couplet volition all the same lose theirs ane time the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge opens , maybe inwards 2017 , simply it tin survive equally belatedly equally 2020. The novel couplet which volition connect Hong Kong , Macau as well as Zhuhai , volition convey an aggregate length of over 50 km over water. At to the lowest degree , the championship volition remain amongst China.