Lalon Shah Bridge

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Coordinates: 24 ° 3 ′ 54 ″  N , 89 ° 1 ′ 45 ″  E

Lalon Shah Bridge
লালন শাহ সেতু
Lalon Shah Bridge লালন শাহ সেতু
Lalon Shah Bridge - view from the west
use Road bridge
Crossing of Padma
place near the place Pakshey in Bangladesh
construction Prestressed concrete - box girder bridge
overall length 1,786 m
width 18.3 m
Longest span 109.5 m
building-costs 1,065 crore taka
(just under US $ 200 million)
start of building 1997
completion 2004
opening May 18, 2004
toll Yes
location
Lalon Shah Bridge (Bangladesh)
Lalon Shah Bridge

The Lalon Shah Bridge ( Bengali লালন শাহ সেতু ) is a 1.8 kilometer long road bridge over the Padma in Bangladesh . The bridge was opened in 2004. The bridge was named after Lalon Shah, a Bengali mystic, social reformer, Baul and poet from the 18th / 19th centuries. Century named.

history

In the years 1910 to 1915, the Hardinge Bridge was built as a two-lane railway truss bridge over the Padma near Pakshey in what is now Bangladesh (then part of British India ) . Design and construction meant a technical and logistical peak performance for the time. The Hardinge Bridge remained the only bridge over the Padma for almost 90 years. However, it was designed exclusively as a railway bridge (with a pedestrian path). With the rise of car traffic, the need for a road bridge grew.

In April 1997 construction began on a road bridge just 300 meters downstream from the Hardinge Bridge. Due to the close construction on an already built bridge, the already existing river fortifications could be used and they did not have to be completely redesigned and carried out. The construction was carried out by the Chinese Major Bridge Engineering Bureau . 300 Chinese and 1,400 Bangladeshi workers and skilled workers were employed on the construction site. The original planning provided for a construction period of 55 months from April 1997 to October 2001. However, the actual construction work was delayed considerably, which was mainly attributed to organizational deficits in tenders, so that the bridge was only completed in February 2004. However, the projected budget was adhered to and even fell below a little.

On May 18, 2004, the then Prime Minister Khaleda Zia opened the bridge to traffic in a solemn ceremony.

Technical data, construction costs

The total cost of the construction amounted to 10.65 billion taka (equivalent to almost 200 million US $). Of this, 2.45 billion came from the government of Bangladesh and the rest as a loan from the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation , which is to be repaid over 30 years.

The aim of the bridge project was above all to better connect the underdeveloped north-west (today's divisions Rajshahi and Rangpur ) to the south-west, particularly to the overseas port in Mongla . The traffic forecasts turned out to be too optimistic, at least in the first few years after the opening. In 2007, 1,599 vehicles crossed the bridge every day, while the planning was based on 3,316. Still, the lenders rated the project overall as a success.

The bridge is 1786 meters long and rests on 18 concrete pedestals, which in turn rest on metal pillars driven into the ground, based on a construction principle analogous to that of the Bangabandhu Bridge, which opened in 1998 . The distance between the girders is 109.5 m and at both ends 2 × 75 meters. The bridge was a concrete box - prestressed concrete bridge in cantilever method built. It is 18.3 meters wide and has a total of four lanes (two in each direction). 5.84 km of access roads had to be built on the western side and 9.77 km on the eastern side. 65,000 tons of cement were required for the construction.

There is a toll to use the bridge and there are toll stations at both ends of the bridge.

The very controversial Ruppur nuclear power plant is planned to be located on the eastern bank near the bridge .

  • Different views of the bridge

  • Lalon Shah Bridge (left) and Hardinge Bridge

  • Toll booth

  • Lalon Shah Bridge (front) and Hardinge Bridge

  • Bridge view from below

Web links

Commons : Lalon Shah Bridge  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fakir Lalon Shai ... 120 years on. The Daily Star , October 16, 2010, accessed July 12, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Paksey Bridge Construction Project (I) (II) (L / A No. BD-P42, BD-P50). (pdf) Retrieved February 27, 2016 (English).
  3. ^ Rafiq Hasan: Bridge on Padma opens tomorrow. The Daily Star, May 17, 2014, accessed July 13, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Waliur Rahman: Bangladeshi PM opens new bridge. BBC News, May 18, 2004, accessed July 12, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b Lalon Shah (Pakshey) Bridge. Heidelbergcement Bangladesh Ltd., accessed on July 12, 2016 .
  6. ^ Amin AFMS, Okui Y: Design, construction and maintenance of bridges in Bangladesh: In the past, present and future. In: IABSE-JSCE Joint Conference on Advances in Bridge Engineering III, 21. – 22. August 2015, Dhaka, Bangladesh. PDF ISBN 978-984-33-9313-5 .
  7. ↑ Monirul Islam: Infrastructure in Bangladesh. (PDF) Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, August 2014, accessed on July 12, 2016 (English, 8th INPRO Dialog Forum: August 26 - 29, 2014, IAEA, Vienna).