Interesting facts about Padma bridge
Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed Paulash/TBS
- Longest bridge in Bangladesh and 122nd in the world
- Main part 6.15km with 41 spans
- Piles laid at record 122 meter depth
- Ability to bear highest friction pendulum
- World's first $110bn deal signed for river training
- About 18-foot bridge ceiling above water
- Water vehicles as high as five-storey can pass easily
- Capacity to survive 9-magnitude earthquake
- Every bridge pier with 124.60 meganewton capacity
- Piles of eight electric towers installed
- Initially, 12,000 vehicles to cross every day
- 30,000 vehicles targeted to pass by 2030
- A daily toll of Tk2.5 crore expected
- The bridge to have a museum of 2,281 fauna samples and
- building materials
