14/07/2022
Metro Cebu's 3 bridges that connects Mactan Island to Mainland Cebu. 🌁🌁🌁🌁
🔰 1st Bridge - The Mactan-Mandaue Bridge, officially known as Sergio Osmeña Jr. Bridge, connects the islands of Cebu and Lapu-Lapu via Mandaue City. It is locally known as the “Old Bridge” and is 854 meters long.
Designed by Ronald C. Cosep and Associates, it was constructed in 1970 after the ordination of Mandaue as a chartered city. Filipino engineers designed and created the bridge. Construction took three years to facilitate trade between Cebu Island and Lapu-Lapu and was subsequently inaugurated and opened to the public on July 4, 1973.
Mactan-Mandaue Bridge was later renamed in April 2013 to “Sergio Osmeña Jr. Bridge in honor of the former senator and Cebu Governor Sergio Osmeña Jr.
🔰 2nd Bridge - (Marcelo Fernan Bridge, also known as Second Cebu-Mactan Bridge is an extradosed cable-stayed bridge located in Metro Cebu in the Philippines. It spans across Mactan Channel connecting Mandaue City to Lapu-Lapu City in Mactan Island. It is currently the second-longest cable-stayed bridge in the Philippines after Cebu-Cordova Bridge in Cebu City.
Before it was named the Marcelo Fernan Bridge, it was called the Consolacion Bridge (which was a temporary name), named after the Municipality of Consolacion, which is 1.6 miles (2.6 km) from the north end of the bridge. Opened in August 1999, this bridge has greatly eased traffic between the islands of Cebu and Mactan.
An engineering feat, its center span at 185 meters is the longest center span in the world for extrados bridges. Spanning the Mactan Channel, its location approximately parallels the first bridge, the Mandaue-Mactan Bridge. Named after the late Cebuano Senate President and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, this 1,010-meter bridge can be accessed from Plaridel Street in Mandaue City and from the circumferential road of Mactan island. Off the bridge in Mactan, the airport sits only two minutes away. Admission: Free)
🔰 3rd Bridge - (The Cebu–Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEX), also known as the Cebu–Cordova Bridge and the Third Cebu–Mactan Bridge (or simply, the Third Bridge), is an 8.9-kilometer (5.5 mi) toll bridge expressway in Metro Cebu that links Cebu City and Cordova, Cebu. Crossing the Mactan Channel, it is the third road link between Cebu and Mactan islands, and the first between Cebu City and Cordova.
It is the longest bridge in the Philippines, surpassing the 5-kilometer (3.1 mi) Candaba Viaduct of North Luzon Expressway and the 2-kilometer (1.2 mi) San Juanico Bridge between Samar and Leyte, as well as Marcelo Fernan Bridge (which also crosses the Mactan Channel) as the longest cable-stayed bridge in the Philippines and opened last April 30, 2022).
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