Taufīqī Canal Bridge
Coordinates: 30 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ N , 31 ° 11 ′ 37 ″ E
| Taufīqī Canal Bridge | ||
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| Crossing of | Taufīqī Canal | |
| place | Banha | |
| construction | Prestressed concrete bridge | |
| overall length | 130 m | |
| width | 18 m | |
| Number of openings | three | |
| Longest span | 50 m | |
| start of building | 1958 | |
| completion | 1959 | |
| planner | STUP | |
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The Taufīqī Canal Bridge is a road bridge in Banha in al-Qalyubiyya Governorate in Egypt . It leads the main street (el-Shahīd) Farid Nada St. , which begins at the Kafr Al Gazar bridge and runs in an easterly direction across the city, over the Taufīqī Canal to the east , one of the great irrigation canals of the Nile Delta .
Before the construction of the Cairo-Alexandria Agricultural Road , which passes in the north of the city, the two bridges were in the course of the main road link between Cairo and Alexandria .
The Taufīqī Canal Bridge was the first prestressed concrete bridge in Egypt and all of Africa.
The four-lane bridge is 130 m long and 18 m wide. Its three openings have pillar spacing of 40 + 50 + 40 m.
It was built between 1958 and 1959 based on a design by Eugène Freyssinet's engineering firm STUP von der Sté. Misr des Mines et des Carrières built.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marcel Prade: Les grands ponts du monde . Deuxième partie, Hors d'Europe. Brissaud à Poitiers, ISBN 2-902170-68-8 , p. 27