https:\/\/vid.app.com.pk\/vid\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Steel-bridge-Japan-1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\nMULTAN, Feb 28(APP)::An amazing combination of steel bridges that cut through magnificent rocky Suleman Mountain Range as a marvel of Japanese architecture and engineering technology\u00a0has started supporting inter-provincial and cross-country traffic to accelerate economic activity through DG Khan-Fort Monroe\u00a0segment of N-70 highway.<\/p>\n
The mind boggling exercise to decorate the difficult mosttopography of Suleman Mountain Range with the Steel Box Girder<\/p>\n
Bridge began back in July 2016 with 142 million US dollar funding\u00a0from Japan (Japan International Cooperation Agency, Jica) as a\u00a0concessional loan at a very low mark up of 0.2 per cent payable\u00a0in 40 years with a 10-year grace period. It looks glorious symbolising Japan-Pakistan friendship and\u00a0the support of the people of Japan to the people of Pakistan,<\/p>\n
says Teruki Hanazawa, the firs secretary and deputy head of\u00a0economic and development, embassy of Japan, during a visit to the\u00a0project site along with a group of journalists last Wednesday, Feb 26.<\/p>\n
Hanazawa was accompanied by a consultant Ms. Naoka Kogure\u00a0and media director Sajid Abbasi and the team also visited a\u00a0middle school at Baseera in district Muzaffargarh for<\/p>\n
inauguration of its building that was completed recently\u00a0utilizing Japan’s Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security\u00a0Projects (GGP) amounting to US$ 88,355.<\/p>\n
Project Director, Hafeezullah Buzdar, briefed the visitors\u00a0about the steel bridge project stating that the challenging\u00a0assignment was completed in a record three-year duration at over\u00a0Rs 13 billion cost and was supporting traffic from Balochistan<\/p>\n
besides cross-country traffic.\u00a0\u00a0 The Steel Box Girder Bridge was built under project titled<\/p>\n
Widening & Strengthening of National Highway 70 (N-70) under\u00a0Japan’s Official Development Assistance and executed jointly by\u00a0Japanese company Taisei corporation, National Highway Authority\u00a0(NHA), CTI, Oriconsul, Exponent engineers etc.<\/p>\n
N-70 is a 450-km main artery connecting Punjab and\u00a0Balochistan from Qila Saifullah to Multan and an 11.5-km Rakhi\u00a0Garj to Bewata section, near Fort Monroe hill station of South<\/p>\n
Punjab, was a major traffic bottleneck that had been bothering\u00a0the motorist since long, and resolved finally after the state-of-\u00a0the-art seven steel bridges were erected.<\/p>\n
The Japanese technology masterpiece was built with box-\u00a0shaped girders made of weather resistant special steel that can\u00a0be maintenance-free for 75 years and special embankment wall\u00a0strengthened with light and strong materials to avoid land\u00a0sliding. Girdo More on DG Khan-Fort Monroe road was the most\u00a0troublesome turn to negotiate particularly for trucks who used to\u00a0apply handbrakes to let the traffic from opposite direction pass\u00a0and then move on.<\/p>\n
Engineers had to build work stations and for dangerous\u00a0turns, the likes of Girdo, they moved a bit away from the rock\u00a0and installed bridges with strong pillars to support.<\/p>\n
Now the single-truck road has been expanded to double-truck\u00a0and sharp curves with a radius of 8 meters has been enlarged to\u00a030 meters enabling convenient traffic flow with steep hills on\u00a0one side and the fearsome depth on the other.<\/p>\n
As the result of the project, heavy-weight trailers can be\u00a0passing with over 40 km\/h, which would promote smooth\u00a0transportation between the east and west of the nation.<\/p>\n
Director construction NHA South Sulait Ahmad said that N-70\u00a0has emerged as a preferred route for commuters between\u00a0Balochistan and Punjab after construction of the bridge and added\u00a0that NHA weigh stations are active in Balochistan and Sakhi\u00a0Sarwar in Punjab to check the weight of the heavy vehicles to avoid overloading. The bridge has a life span of 100 years but can last longer, Sulait remarked. People believed the bridge<\/p>\n
would be instrumental in accelerating economic activities and\u00a0promoting tourism to Fort Monroe and other scenic and historical\u00a0spots Suleman Mountain Range is known for.<\/p>\n
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