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Crosses
  
Official name
  
Thanlyin Bridge

Total length
  
2,200 m

Location
  
Body of water
  
Bago River

Locale
  
Design
  
Truss Bridge

Opened
  
31 July 1993

Bridge type
  
Truss bridge

Carries
  
Lane, Track

Maintained by
  
Ministry of Transportation

Width
  
2 traffic lanes, single rail track, 2 pedestrian walk lanes

Address
  
Unnamed Road, Myanmar (Burma)

Similar
  
Ye Le Pagoda, National Races Village, Kyaikkhauk Pagoda, Kaba Aye Pagoda, Maha Bandula Park

Myanmar s yangon thanlyin bridge 2 crosses bago river between yangon and thanlyin


Thanlyin Bridge (Burmese: သန်လျင် တံတား) is a bridge linking the cities of Thanlyin and Yangon in Myanmar. The bridge crosses the 1-km wide Bago river, about 42 km northeast from the river's confluence with Yangon river. The bridge has a single rail track in the middle, surrounded by a motor roadway on each side.

Contents

Highway 6 goes over the bridge and connects Yangon with the Thilawa port and Thanlyin Industrial Zone.

The bridge will soon be joined by the Thanlyin Bridge 2, which has been under construction since mid-2000s.

Thanlyin bridge 1 yangon myanmar


History

The bridge was built with Chinese financial and technical assistance. The construction of the bridge began in 1985 but was suspended for about eight months from August 1988 to April 1989 due to unstable political conditions following the uprising of 1988. The total cost of the bridge was 1.65 billion kyats, including a 207 million yuan interest free loan from China.

References

Thanlyin Bridge Wikipedia


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