The Padma Bridge is capable of withstanding major natural calamities and other shocks, said the Padma Multipurpose Bridge project director Md Shafiqul Islam.If the bridge is maintained properly, its longevity will cross 100 years, he said.
The bridge will play an important role in the country’s economic and social development despite some initial challenges, he said.
Shafiqul Islam was talking with New Age recently about the bridge project and the bridge, offering his opinions on numerous issues and aspects of the infrastructure while emphasising that the project cost has not gone up by a single taka in the past seven years.
The Padma Bridge, a much-awaited 6.15-kilometre-long infrastructure for road transports and trains to cross the mighty River Padma between Mawa in Munshiganj and Janjira in Shariatpur, opens today, June 25, to connect the capital city with the 16 south-western and four central districts of the country.
The bridge project was implemented by the Bangladesh Bridge Authority and Shafiqul Islam has been the project director since 2011.
‘While planning the bridge, we took into account some possible adverse situations,’ he said, adding, ‘For the structure to withstand an earthquake of 8 magnitude in Richter Scale or survive a 62-metre scour in the river we have taken protection measures.’ The bridge designers also devised protection measures for the bridge on the assumption that maximum 4,000-tonne vessels would ply under the bridge.
‘The bridge was designed in a way that it can endure an 8 magnitude earthquake and the impact if a 4,000-tonne ship hits it, while ferries run under the structure are much smaller,’ he said.
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