At 5,400 m in length, the offshore viaduct will connect Saint-Denis (the administrative capital of La Réunion) with La Grande Chaloupe. It will provide 2×3 traffic lanes, two of them dedicated to ‘soft’ modes of transport (buses, pedestrians, bicycles).
This viaduct is the major structure of the new ‘Route du Littoral’, which will replace the existing cliff road between Saint-Denis and La Possession, which was subject to rockfalls and flooding during tropical storms.