Bridge
A road-rail bridge was proposed in 2009.
Padma bridge is the largest bridge of Bangladesh (proposed). It will cost ৳30 Billion (30,000,000,000 taka) to finish. It should be open to the public in 2013. World Bank cancelled US $ 1.2 Billion Loan to construct this bridge, putting a big question mark on the future of the bridge.
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Famous quotes containing the word bridge:
“I was at work that morning. Someone came riding like mad
Over the bridge and up the road—Farmer Rouf’s little lad.
Bareback he rode; he had no hat; he hardly stopped to say,
“Morgan’s men are coming, Frau, they’re galloping on this way.”
—Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894)
“Oh, who will now be able to relate how Pantagruel behaved in face of these three hundred giants! Oh my muse, my Calliope, my Thalie, inspire me now, restore my spirits, because here is the ass’s bridge of logic, here is the pitfall, here is the difficulty of being able to describe the horrible battle undertaken.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)