Posted on 03/18/2022 5:50:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Connecting Turkey's European and Asian shores, the 1915 Canakkale Bridge was built by Turkish and South Korean firms with an investment of €2.5 billion ($2.8 billion). It has the longest main span -- the distance between the two towers -- of any suspension bridge in the world.
The main opposition CHP has criticised the potential cost of the bridge to the public purse, with media reports saying the build-operate-transfer agreement includes an annual payment guarantee of €380 million ($420 million) to the operators or a total €6 billion over the duration of the accord.
Erdogan said the price for passenger vehicles to use the bridge would be 200 lira ($13.50). Work on the Dardanelles bridge project was launched in March 2017, with more than 5,000 workers involved in the construction.
It is the fourth bridge linking the European and Asian shores in Turkey, alongside the three built in Istanbul. Its towers are 318 meters (347.8 yards) high and the total length of the bridge is 4.6 km (2.9 miles) including the approach viaducts.
Until now, vehicles travelling between Anatolia and the Gallipoli peninsula had to cross the Dardanelles in a one-hour ferry journey, which including waiting time amounted to as much as five hours. The journey will now take around six minutes.
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Won’t last long if Greece or Israel felt the need
It’s at greater risk from a maritime accident, imo.
Finally, Turkish President Erdogan is promoting something both civilized and beneficial to Turkey and the general area.
$13.50 is a lot of cash just to drive across, but I guess they have to earning that construction money back in one way or another.
Earthquake too
Oh dear lord in heaven. Not an Erdogan fan. He is an Anatolian Hitler
“Earthquake too.”
My first thought, as well.
Wow, towers over 1,000 feet high!
There are other ways to get across, even a tunnel.
No! Certainly not any fan of Erdogan. I’m just glad there is something positive for the Turkish people.
I know a few people now living in Izmir, Turkey.
This is quite a historic accomplishment. For thousands of years the Dardanelles have been a center point of world history. For all those centuries the only way to cross was by boat.
This was the area of the Trojan Wars. It was where Xerxes launched the Persian invasion of Greece, and then where Alexander the Great defeated the Persians a century later and destroyed their empire. It was the area of the Gallipoli campaign that the bridge is named after.
As far as I can tell, both nations made this happen without much, if any influence from the United States.
Better this way. Theses nations make the big decisions, the big investments, and also take responsibility for them.
Who knows how long it was in the works.
They probably don’t have to worry too much about labor unions.
Like Golden Gate I guess vis a vis Earthquake potential. Factored in i spose
Named for a Turkish naval victory over the British navy in WWI.
Couple of nutty muslims and those towers, too, will come tumbling down.
Is that a horse crossing?
What a beautiful piece of work.
thats a big’n... but spans are spans and all I know is on windy days it’s a gamble crossing the Mighty Mac connecting the lower and upper peninsulas of Michigan...
Thank you. I was just about to ask about this date in the name of the bridge.
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