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Design of the Main Spans of the Chongqing Caiyanba Bridge 重庆菜园坝大桥的主桥设计 Man-Chung TANG Chairman and Technical Director T.Y. Lin International San Francisco, CA, USA A member of US National Academy of Engineering and a foreign member of Chinese Academy of Engineering. Received Dr.-Ing. in 1955 and has been designing bridges or 40 years. He is the Technical Director of the Caiyuanba Bridge project. John SUN Associate T.Y. Lin International San Francisco, CA, USA Technical Director T.Y. Lin International (Chongqing) Born in 1963, he received Ph.D from University of California at San Diego, directed the design of several major bridges and has written a number of technical papers,. He is the Chief Engineer for the Caiyuanba Bridge project. Summary The new Caiyuanba Bridge over the Yangtze River in Chongqing will carry six lanes of highway and two pedestrian walkways on its upper deck as well as two tracks of monorails on its lower deck. It will serve as one of the transportation backbones for this ever-expanding city, connecting the two busiest business districts of the city: Yuzhong and Nanan. Because the bridge is located at the center of the city and is visible from most parts of the city, aesthetics is a very important matter. After careful study of the location, a slender tied-arch was selected to carry the double level bridge girder over the Yangtze River. Upon completion, its 420-m span will be the world’s longest tied-arch span for combined rail and highway traffic. The side spans are 102 meters long. Keywords: Bridge, Long span bridge, Arch Bridge Introduction The mighty Yangtze and its tributary to the north, the Jialing River divide the metropolitan Chongqing into three parts, as shown in the project location map in Figure 1. The Caiyuanba Yangtze River Bridge is a key project connecting segments of the newly planned south-north corridor. Located 1.2 kilometers upstream from the existing “Chongqing First Yangtze River Crossing,” which was built in 1978,