Rach Mieu bridge (Mỹ Tho)

 road bridge, 2008_construction

Rach Mieu Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge linking the two provinces of Tien Giang (My Tho) and Ben Tre together. North Shore of this bridge is the city of My Tho, Tien Giang, Chau Thanh district is the southern bank of Ben Tre province, 14km from the provincial capital of Ben Tre. This is the self-investment by Vietnam, with designers and general contractors are companies in Vietnam. The bridge when completed will help rid the world of Ben Tre province road traffic isolation. In addition to the main bridge, the work also includes the path ends.

Under the original schedule, the bridge will be completed and opened to traffic engineering in late 2007 to put to use on the Lunar New Year but did not achieve progress duoc.Vi project was built in hard economic times problems leading to lack of funds.

Length: 8331 m including road connecting the bridge. Main bridge consists of two separate bridges No. 1 and No. 2 has a total length of 2868 m, which has a cable-stayed structure is arranged +270 m +117 m 117m span, height 37.5 m navigational clearance. In the middle of the bridge is working Thoi Son. 990m long bridge consists of two spans up to 90m in length to navigable height is 7m beams prestressed reinforced concrete construction in balanced cantilever method. The result is a bridge to span pre-stressed reinforced concrete spans of 40m length each. Two ramp ends with a total length 5.463mva two main bridge has a total length of 2.868m across two tributaries Thoi Son Tien Giang and alcohol.

7h 30 am 20/8, Ministry of Transport and two provinces of Ben Tre and Tien Giang, Long held a ceremony where two spans connect the main cable-stayed Rach Mieu bridge. connecting Ben Tre to Tien Giang.

Length of main span: 270 m length and height is 37.5 m navigable for ships of 10,000 tons can pass through.
Width of bridge: 12-15 m wide for two cars to the road and pedestrian sides
General contractor: partnership CIENCO1 - CIENCO5 - Cienco6; CIENCO1 venture leaders, Construction span CIENCO1
Load requirements: 30 tons
Total investment: 1.400 billion
Although the newly completed but have occurred Rach Mieu Bridge traffic jams, especially on holidays. Chinese New Year of the Ox in 2009, demand has been stuck at peak hours from 29 to the 6th festival, one of the causes of traffic congestion is due for the traffic on the bridge is too narrow, while being some encroached vendors to the mall, in addition to those people to visit and take pictures on demand.