Update 16th February 2024......................................................................
Progress continues and seems to be at a rapid rate, on the north side of highway #1021 they are building the overhead bridge in an interesting way, its called a "Segmental Bridge"............................................ive been trying to understand how the segments are held together ?, well google helped me, you can see each segment has like male and female teeth formed into the concrete, once all these are positioned in place steel cables are pulled through each span (between support towers) using hydraulics and this locks them together, very interesting.
This first photo is heading out of Thoeng on highway #1020 towards Chiang Khong and the new traffic lights are just before the Thoeng License Centre (can see the DLT in the background) and then I turned right here and its all finished bitumen all the way to basically the bridge construction at highway #1021, there is about 150m of dirt road around the bridge, although you can turn left just before the bridge construction site and join onto the existing road that heads to the Thoeng Prison and get onto highway #1021 here.
Progress continues and seems to be at a rapid rate, on the north side of highway #1021 they are building the overhead bridge in an interesting way, its called a "Segmental Bridge"............................................ive been trying to understand how the segments are held together ?, well google helped me, you can see each segment has like male and female teeth formed into the concrete, once all these are positioned in place steel cables are pulled through each span (between support towers) using hydraulics and this locks them together, very interesting.
This first photo is heading out of Thoeng on highway #1020 towards Chiang Khong and the new traffic lights are just before the Thoeng License Centre (can see the DLT in the background) and then I turned right here and its all finished bitumen all the way to basically the bridge construction at highway #1021, there is about 150m of dirt road around the bridge, although you can turn left just before the bridge construction site and join onto the existing road that heads to the Thoeng Prison and get onto highway #1021 here.
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