Please stop with your stories of flimsy bridges on shallow rivers (canals?) built with garbage tek-na-laaji. We saw how the Bhagalpur Bridge in Bihar collapsed - twice. As if we are supposed to be impressed with 6000 crore figure....
This bridge below was built with Tk.30,000 crores and employs civil engg. tech hitherto unknown globally. The depth of the Padma at the bridge site and the scouring on the riverbed are unprecedented - as is the fierce meandering nature and size of its flows alongwith wind-whipped waves. Where it meets with the Meghna is panic inducing for the less initiated. Any bhakt would literally $hit their pants crossing the river here. People need ball$ to live here - this is not Bhagalpur, Bihar.
The piling hammer for the bridge piles alone was custom built in Germany by Menck, then the world's largest. The pilings went down some 384 feet (38 stories deep). Each pier had six to eight piles driven deep into below the riverbed.
Reported by your own Godi Media but scarce in detail. India is getting this for free to help their transit. Some shuqrana would be nice from bhakts, but knowing how ingrate bhakts are, not expected.
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