The Padma Setu

 

The Padma Setu

to the Padma Bridge, people in the country’s south-west will begin to benefit from the bridge immediately. By road, the distance between Dhaka Padma Bridge: All Details Records & Facts - Daffodil ...

Length of Padma Bridge is 6.15 kilometers (20,2000 feet). Width 16.10 meters (59.4 feet). The bridge is maintained by Bangladesh Bridge Authority and supervised by Korean Expressway and Bangladesh Army. The nearest cantonment to the bridge is Padma cantonment.

According to Zahid Hossain, lead economist at the World Bank, with the opening of road and rail traffic and most of the south-western districts will be reduced to at least 100 km. In addition to reducing the time and cost of transporting passengers and goods, vehicle maintenance and fuel costs will be much lower. As a result, people from all sectors, including business and agriculture, will benefit, imThe Padma Bridge is a significant infrastructure project connecting Bangladesh's southern and northern regions. The bridge will span the Padma River, the largest river in Bangladesh, and it will be the longest bridge in the country, with a length of 6.15 kilometres and 41 spans.pacting the country’s GDP. The bridge is considered to be the most challenging construction project in the history of Bangladesh, the steel truss bridge carries a four-lane highway on the upper level[7] and a single track railway on the lower level.[8] The bridge consists of 41 sections, each 150.12 m (492.5 ft) long and 22 metres (72 ft) wide, with a total length of 6.15 km (3.82 mi).[6] It is the longest bridge in Bangladesh,[7] the longest bridge over the river Ganges (Gaṅgā) by both span and total length, and features the highest pile depth of any bridge in the world at 120 m (390 ft).[9][10] It is the deepest bridge in the world, with piles installed as deep as 127 metres.[11] The construction of the bridge was considered