is the glass bridge true?
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Yes, it is true.
China isn’t the only country in the world to build glass bridges, but this one is longer (430 meters) and higher (300 meters) than all of the others. And it has been built to allow viewing of one of the most striking panoramas in the world.
The 6 meter wide Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge connects the two sides of the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon in Hunan Province, in the area where the popular movie Avatar was filmed. It has a steel frame supported by four pillars on the edges of the canyon. The walkway is a triple layer of more than 120 glass panels, each a 2 inch thickness of tempered glass.
There was a great deal of excitement about the opening of the Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge, and events were held to prove its strength and safety such as driving a car filled with passengers across the bridge, and people with sledgehammers proving it could not be smashed. Despite this, visitors are provided with protective shoe covers before they walk across, and are told not to run or jump or lean on the railings.
When it opened, park officials had allowed for 800 visitors at a time, a total of 8,000 in one day. Unfortunately, they discovered that 80,000 visitors were showing up daily, and they closed the attraction in order to upgrade the car parks, ticketing, and customer service arrangements. The bridge was successfully opened again four weeks later.