Hinode Bridge
Coordinates: 8 ° 33 ′ 40 ″ S , 125 ° 32 ′ 3 ″ E
| Hinode Bridge | ||
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| Official name | Hinode Bridge | |
| Convicted | Rio Comoro | |
| place | Comoro , Dili | |
| overall length | 249 meters | |
| width | 11.55 meters | |
| building-costs | $ 23,700,000 | |
| start of building | August 2016 | |
| completion | 2018 | |
| opening | September 13th / 12th October 2018 | |
| Status | New | |
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The Hinode Bridge ( Portuguese: Ponte Hinode ) ( Comoro III Bridge in the construction phase ) is a two-lane road bridge in the Comoro district of the East Timorese capital Dili . It leads over the Rio Comoro , 800 meters south of the CPLP bridge (Comoro II bridge). It connects the Avenida de Hudi-Laran ( German banana road ) in the east with the national expressway 3
The bridge was funded with the help of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which provided 2,605,000,000 yen , or 23,700,000 US dollars , for the construction . Construction began in August 2016, with the symbolic start of construction on October 16. 15 local engineers and more than a hundred local workers were also involved in the construction. Plus 37 from abroad. The bridge has a length of 249 meters and consists of six arches, two with a length of 33.7 meters and four with a length of 45 meters. It is 11.55 meters wide, the two lanes are each 3.5 meters wide. In addition, the bridge has a footpath on both sides.
The bridge was opened to traffic on September 13, 2018, one month late. The official opening ceremony was postponed to October 12, 2018, on the occasion of the visit of the Japanese Foreign Minister Tarō Kōno to East Timor. East Timorese Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak , Transport Minister José Agustinho da Silva , Building Minister Salvador Eugénio Soares dos Reis Pires and Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Minami also attended the ceremony. On this occasion, the official name of the bridge was announced. The Japanese word "Hinode" means "rising sun" in German , a name that both Japan (the "land of the rising sun") and East Timor ("east" means "Loro Sa'e" in Tetum , literally "rising sun") “) Use for yourself.
The bridge is intended to accommodate the increasing traffic between the city center in the east and the growing west, with the Presidente Nicolau Lobato International Airport and the new seaport in Tibar . The minibus line (Mikrolet) number 11, which connects the Manleuana market with Tasitolu , now crosses the bridge .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f JICA: Opening Ceremony of "Hinode Bridge" , October 12, 2018 , accessed on November 9, 2018.
- ↑ a b JICA: "Ponte Comoro III loke ona" , September 13, 2018 , accessed on November 9, 2018.
- ^ A b The Timor News: Ponta Comoro III inagura semana oan , September 3, 2018 , accessed November 8, 2018.