大濁水溪上的鐵索橋

[英文]@When this bridge was built in March, 1921, it was located at the boundary between Taipei and Hualian Prefectures. Crossing Dazhuoshui 大濁水(now called Heping 和平 river) about 39 miles from Suao, was 514.5 meters long and 3.6 meters wide. Its surfaces were made from a combination of red cypress and other woods. The central bridge tower was taken to be the boundary between Taipei and Hualian....This is the longest bridge along the coastal highway, and was an engineering feat of great difficulty. In 1946, the bridge collapsed during a typhoon, to be replaced in 1949 by a concrete bridge, which in 1961 was in turn replaced by a steel reinforced cement bridge@ (Liu 1997, p. 217). Translated Japanese caption: @The 大濁水(Dazhuoshui) Cable Bridge. With a length of 1700 feet and a width of 20ft., with 2600 cables attached to the ferroconcrete columns, and a construction cost of 320,000 yen. It does not move the slightest, even with 5 or 6 buses on it. This bridge is truly the most spectacular view on the Suao-Hualian highway.@ A ca. 1939 government pamphlet refers to these vehicles as @public buses@ (Romantic Taiwan, 1939, p. 19).