A fun walk across the Macau Bridge later this month will give residents a chance to inspect the structure before it opens to vehicular traffic.
Scheduled for 29 September at 8 am, according to an announcement from the Sports Bureau, the walk has room for 10,000 participants, with half the places reserved for group attendees.
The 6-kilometre walk begins on the Taipa side of the Macau Bridge in the Pac On area, then heads towards Urban Zone A before doubling back to the starting point.
Registration for groups, which must be between 20 and 150 people, will commence at 10 am this Thursday and will remain open until 9 pm on Saturday. Individual registrations begin at 10 am this Sunday and will end at 9 pm next Tuesday. Participants are required to hold a Macao ID.
[See more: The Macau Bridge will open to traffic in the third quarter of this year]
Applications can be submitted via the Sport Bureau’s dedicated webpage (although the page had yet to go live at the time of writing).
Each participant will be given a commemorative wristband and be entered into a draw to win one of the 1,000 limited edition t-shirts.
An official opening date for the 3.1-kilometre Macau Bridge has yet to be announced, but the Public Works Bureau stated earlier this year that the link would be ready for operation by the third quarter of this year. Once the bridge finally begins operation, it is expected to greatly alleviate traffic congestion between the peninsula and Taipa.
Work on the eight laned bridge commenced in 2020 at a cost of 5.27 billion.
