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Ramong Bridge on Yangon-Sittway Hig



Subject: Ramong Bridge on Yangon-Sittway Highway in Rakhine State Commissioned into service

SOURCE : Information Sheet  No.B-1184 (I) 16th December 1999
MYANMAR INFORMATION COMMITTEE YANGON

Ramong Bridge on Yangon-Sittway Highway in Rakhine
State Commissioned into service

    Ramong Bridge on Yangon-Sittway Highway in Minbya
Township, Rakhine State, was commissioned into service
on 15 December at the pandal near the bridge. The
total length of roads in Rakhine State at the end of
1998-99 is over 810 miles up 360 miles from only 440
miles in 1988-89. A network of roads and bridges is
being built in the entire nation; and over 100 major
bridges including bridges on Ayeyawady, Thanlwin and
Chindwin rivers have been built for development of the
Union. Completion of Yangon-Sittway Highway,
Yangon-Taungup-Thandwe Road and Minbu-An Tattaung Road
and extension of Taungup-Maei-An-Tattaung Road,
Thandwe-Gwa-Ngathaingchaung Road and
Kyauktaw-Buthidaung Road has made road transport
possible in almost every part of Rakhine State and
opened on-land gateways to Bago, Magway and Ayeyawady
Divisions. Road construction is a much difficult task
in Rakhine State which is a coastal area crisscrossed
by rivers and streams; hundreds of bridges have to be
built on the roads. Over 800 small bridges and 10
major bridges were built on Yangon-Sittway Highway
alone.

    Over K 3.75 billion have already been spent in
building 15 major bridges of over 300 feet in length
including 1,100- foot long Yaw Creek Bridge, 990-foot
long Dalet Creek Bridge, 740-foot long Myaungbway
Bridge, 700-foot long Kyeintali Bridge and the Ramong
Bridge. The 2,513-foot long Kissapanadi Bridge, the
2,003-foot long Minchaung Bridge and 940-foot long
Maeichaung Bridge will be commissioned into service
soon. In addition to Kaingche and Hsetthwa bridges,
two over 400-foot long bridges in Taungup Township six
in Kyaukphyu Township will be built. Of them, Wunphaik
Creek Bridge will be over 1,100 feet long. Located on
Minbya-MraukU-Kyauktaw section of Yangon Sittway
Highway, Ramong Bridge, 1,300 feet long, was built at
a cost of US $2.3 million and over K 1,584 billion. It
is included in the special projects of the State.
Taungup in Rakhine State is now accessible directly
from Yangon via Bago Division and through Nawade
Bridge. 

    At present, construction of Yangon-Kyaukphyu Road is
under way; at the time, all the bridges on
Yangon-Sittway Highway is completed, people from
Sittway can travel to Yangon directly by road and to
all parts of Myanmar through An Mountain Pass.
Completion of Ayeyawady River Bridge will enable
people of Rakhine State to travel by road to Shan
State and Kayah via Minbu, Magway, Taungdwingyi,
Pyinmana and Pinlaung. Similarly, the state will have
direct access to Myanmar-China border by passing
through Mandalay, Kachin State and Shan State by
motorways after completion of Anawrahta Bridge on
Ayeyawady River in Chauk Township. The existing
Sagaing bridge and the Ayeyawady Bridge (Mandalay)
which will be built soon, will serve as main links in
extending direct road connection between Rakhine State
and Myanmar-India border via Chin State. At the time
all these projects were completed, Rakhine State in
addition to its border trade with Bangladesh will be
able to extend other border trades with China and
India. Sea fishing, fish and prawn breeding and marine
enterprises are flourishing in Rakhine State which is
a coastal region. Prospects are bright to build a
deep-sea port to extend foreign trade and to enhance
tourism in the region which has beaches and many
ancient pagodas.
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Mg Myanmar
A Myanmar citizen who loves Myanmar

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