Pakokku Bridge | |
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Coordinates | 21°18′2.8″N 95°3′37″E / 21.300778°N 95.06028°E |
Carries | Motor vehicles, Trains |
Crosses | Irrawaddy River |
History | |
Designer | Crown Advanced Construction, Myanmar Ministry of Construction |
Construction start | 2009 |
Construction end | 31 December 2011 |
Opened | 1 January 2012 |
Location | |
Pakokku Bridge is a rail and road bridge across the Irrawaddy River in Myanmar's Pakokku town. The main bridge is 3.4 km (2.1 mi) long with the motorway measuring 4 km (2.5 mi) and the railroad measuring 6.17 km (3.83 mi). The bridge is part of the India–Myanmar–Thailand Trilateral Highway and is the longest bridge in Myanmar.[1][2][3]
The bridge connects the town of Pakokku with the administrative district of Nyaung-U. The bridge has a 28 foot wide motorway and a 14 foot wide roadway in parallel besides two pedestrian walkways measuring three foot and three inches. It is a broad crested type bridge with a 52 foot high and 262 feet wide clearance area. The bridge also has a 512 feet long approach bridge and an 850 feet long approach embankment. The bridge was inaugurated on 1 January 2012 by Vice-president Tin Aung Myint Oo.[4][5]