Talk:Lótus Bridge

Vandalism

I found the vandalism from SchmuckyTheCat, Please revert his unnecessary editing when you found SchmuckyTheCat resume his editing work. Martinoei (talk) 05:59, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Unnecessarily complex shape?

Aerial view of the western terminus of the Lótus Bridge.

Is there some particular reason for building this bridge the way they did? A form of aesthetic appeal? Is the bridge particularly high, so more run-up length is needed to get vehicles up to the required height?

It looks like nearly all of the bridge is raised on support beams, which increases costs due to need for stabilization and heat expansion compensation.

A much simpler and less expensive design would apparently have been a Y shape with one lane passing under the other. With a Y-shape, the entire structure could have been built on earthwork mounds, except for where the one crosslane bridge passes over the other.

DMahalko (talk) 18:46, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

I came here looking for the same answer - just bringing one lane down to the ground first and letting the other continue on over the top of the first would seem to be a much more practical solution, if not quite so interesting. What's even odder is that the two lanes, once flipped, don't join up again - they just lead to what look like two sets of toll booths, leading from which are two separate roads which connect up with a main road on the other side of the complex at different points. 212.9.31.12 (talk) 13:57, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

I saw that image in the Left- and right-hand traffic article and wondered the same thing. But after staring at the image for a while I think I figured out the reason: I know that Macau was not a part of China until 1999, so most likely those "toll booths" are in fact a former border checkpoint. And as most travellers know: Border checkpoints sometimes get long queues. So I think the extra turns are just to allow more space for the queues. And that the two directions don't join up again is normal at border checkpoints, since you want plenty of working space around the two operating areas.

One might wonder why the other direction also has the extra turn. Either they just did it for symmetry. Or, there was probably a border checkpoint at the other side of the river too (operated by the other country) thus there was probably queueing in the other direction too. (I hate queueing in "no man's land" since there are usually no bathrooms there... :(

David Göthberg (talk) 16:50, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

why the accent?

while wiktionary DOES have an entry for "lótus" (icelandic, portuguese), the actual wikipedia articles are all for "lotus", INCLUDING THE PORTUGUESE ONES.

so does it have the accent or not in portuguese?! optional? 2601:19C:527F:A680:4982:F03A:8EA9:52E2 (talk) 01:59, 9 July 2022 (UTC)