Akash -Tales from Shining and Sinking India
City Scape W I D E A N G LE - 5 Calcutta
The Howrah Bridge (or BREEEZ in local lingo!) spans the Hooghly River and links the city of Howrah to its twin city, Kolkata/Calcutta. Officially Renamed Rabindra Setu, after Rabindranath Tagore, it is STILL popularly known as the Howrah Bridge and STILL continues to be the enduring iconic image of a town past its industrial/cultural prime.
The bridge is 705 metres long and 30 metres wide. More than 26,500 MT of high-tensile steel went into this bridge. An engineering marvel, it expands as much as a metre during a summer day. The eight-lane bridge carries a steady flow of approximately 80,000 vehicles, and possibly more than 1,000,000 pedestrians and thousands of cattle every day.
Built between 1937 and 1943 the bridge stands tall even today - bearing the stormy weather of the Bay of Bengal region, even as it takes the weight of a daily traffic of approximately 80,000 vehicles and more than 1,000,000 pedestrians.
City Scape W I D E A N G LE - 5 Calcutta
The Howrah Bridge (or BREEEZ in local lingo!) spans the Hooghly River and links the city of Howrah to its twin city, Kolkata/Calcutta. Officially Renamed Rabindra Setu, after Rabindranath Tagore, it is STILL popularly known as the Howrah Bridge and STILL continues to be the enduring iconic image of a town past its industrial/cultural prime.
The bridge is 705 metres long and 30 metres wide. More than 26,500 MT of high-tensile steel went into this bridge. An engineering marvel, it expands as much as a metre during a summer day. The eight-lane bridge carries a steady flow of approximately 80,000 vehicles, and possibly more than 1,000,000 pedestrians and thousands of cattle every day.
Built between 1937 and 1943 the bridge stands tall even today - bearing the stormy weather of the Bay of Bengal region, even as it takes the weight of a daily traffic of approximately 80,000 vehicles and more than 1,000,000 pedestrians.