Defying the doubters, the world's longest cable-stayed bridge opened to regular motorists on Wednesday across the Bosphorus East Strait.The Russky Island Bridge has been portrayed as another attempt by Pacific port Vladivostok to be seen as Russia's San Francisco, and the estimated $1.1 billion engineering creation is destined to become the city's signature. To critics is is an expensive folly, a 'bridge to nowhere', serving an island where only 5,000 people live, but to supporters it symbolises nothing less than the coming economic rebirth of the Russian Far East.
The Siberian Times, 01 August 2012
