Can You Guess the Length of this Bridge?
Anyone in the Dungun area care to tell us the length of this bridge?
It will give a good comparison with the RM250m flyover that has been proposed the Crooked Bridge for JB.
Maybe some will call it the crooked flyover as costs have escalated from RM100m to RM250m and now the latest RM470m.
I expect this bridge to be 2 lanes each way and they mention building six piers at 50m so the minimum length of this bridge is at least 400 meters. Looking at the photo and the size of the multi-storey buildings in the distance, I guess the overall length of this bridge is about 800 meters.
Let’s keep it simple and make this a RM60m project for 800 meters. If we increase the length by another 200 meters or 25%, the cost should be about RM75m for a 2-lane bridge.
Now let us make this a 3-lane bridge and assume the cost increases by another 40%. That will make a one kilometer 3-lane bridge cost RM105m.
Some will say that costs of cement and steel have gone up drastically but project costs should not increase the same percentage as raw materials.
Hmmm... did I leave out any other costs?
Anyone in the Dungun area care to enlighten us?
Photo: The Star, Malaysia
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