Bang Na Expressway

Bang Na Expressway

Legend km.0 Bang Na Junction(Connection with Chalerm Maha Nakhon Expressway) km.2.5 Bang Na km.2 Entry/Exit km.4 Wat Si Iam Junction km.6 Bang Na km.6 Toll Plaza km.7 Bang Kaew Entry/Exit km.9 Wat Sa Lut Junction / Outer Ring Road Entry/Exit km.11 Bang Phii 1 Entry/Exit km.12 King Kaew Junction km.13 Bang Phii 2 Entry/Exit km.15 Suvarnabhumi Airport Entry/Exit km.18 Muang Mai Bang Phii Entry/Exit km.25 Bang Bo 1 Entry/Exit km.28 Bang Bo 2 Entry/Exit km.34 Bang Sao Thong Entry/Exit km.39 Bang Wua 1 Entry/Exit km.42 Bang Wua 2 Entry/Exit km.45 Bang Pakong 1 Entry/Exit km.46 Klong Oom Junction km.48 Bang Pakong 2 Entry/Exit km.50 Bang Pakong River km.54 Cholburi Toll Plaza km.54 Cholburi Entry/Exit

The Bang Na Expressway (full name: Bang Na - Bang Phli - Bang Pakong Expressway), officially Burapha Withi Expressway (Thai: ทางพิเศษบูรพาวิถี), is a 55 km^[1] long six-lane elevated highway in Thailand. It is a toll road and runs above National Highway route 34, (Bang Na–Bang Pakong Highway) owned by the Expressway Authority of Thailand (EXAT).

The highway is elevated onto a viaduct that has an average span length of 42 meters. It is a 27-meter wide box girder bridge and was completed in January 2000. It took 1,800,000 cubic meters of concrete to build the bridge. The structure was built using a design-build contracting method. The columns and superstructure were designed by Jean M. Muller (U.S.) and the alignment and foundations were designed by Asian Engineering Consultants (Thailand). The owner's engineer was Louis Berger Group (U.S.) and the project was built by a joint venture of Bilfinger + Berger (Germany) and Ch. Karnchang (Thailand).^[2]

There are two toll plazas on the elevated structure where the structure must widen to accommodate twelve lanes.

It is one of the longest bridges in the world (until 2010 it was the longest) but it is excluded from some lists since it does not cross a body of water for most of its length. The largest body of water that it crosses is the Bang Pakong River.

Bangna-Bangpakong Road

See also

• List of bridges by length
• List of bridge megaprojects
• Expressway

References

External links

Media related to Burapha Withi Expressway at Wikimedia Commons

• The Bang Na Expressway (1,1 MB PDF-file with plans and photos)

Coordinates: 13°39′40″N 100°39′50″E / 13.66111°N 100.66389°E / 13.66111; 100.66389

Road infrastructure in Thailand Motorways Thai motorway network Expressway Thai expressway system Bang Na Expressway Don Mueang Tollway Highways Major Route 1 (Phahonyothin Road) Route 2 (Mittraphap Road) Route 3 (Sukhumvit Road) Route 4 (Phetkasem Road) Northern Route 11 Northeastern Route 205 Central Route 31 (Vibhavadi Rangsit Road) Route 32 Route 34 (Bang Na Expressway) Route 302 (Rattanathibet Road) Route 336 (Lat Phrao Road) Route 351 (Prasoet Manukit Road) Route 3202 (Nawamin Road) Southern Route 41 Route 44 Route 401 Route 403 Route 410 Route 4012 Route 4054 Route 4184 (Wang Prachan Road)