The Marcelo Fernan Bridge, also called the Second Cebu-Mactan Bridge, crosses the Mactan Channel in Metro Cebu, Philippines. It links Mandaue on Cebu Island with Lapu-Lapu City on Mactan Island. Construction ran from 1996 to 1999, with help from the Japanese government. President Joseph Estrada inaugurated it on August 3, 1999.
It is an extradosed cable-stayed bridge. The infobox gives a total length of 4,036 feet (1,230.2 meters), and the longest span is 607 feet (185 meters). It carries four lanes of N841, with two pedestrian walkways. The Department of Public Works and Highways maintains it.
A law renamed it for Marcelo Fernan on June 27, 2000. The article calls it the second-longest cable-stayed bridge in the Philippines, after the Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway. Millennium Park and the Filipino Seafarers Memorial sit at the base of the piers on the Mactan side.
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