Reposting one of my joyrides in Visayas Region 🙂
One of the landmark bridges in the Philippines here is again another short clip of San Juanico Bridge that connects the island of Leyte and Samar. A tidbit clip of our joyride, you can check the entire video of Pinoy Joyride – Samar to Leyte Joyride on our Pinoy Joyride Playlist!
You can view it here 🙂
Enjoy watching!
San Juanico Brige from Wikipedia:
art of the Pan-Philippine Highway and stretches from Samar to Leyte across the San Juanico Strait in the Philippines. Its longest length is a steel girder viaduct built on reinforced concrete piers, and its main span is of an arch-shaped truss design. With a total length of 2.16 kilometers (1.34 mi), it is the longest bridge in the Philippines spanning a body of seawater. The bridge was dedicated to Ferdinand Marcos’ wife, Imelda Marcos.
Design Arch-shaped truss bridge
Total length 2,164 m (7,100 ft)
Longest span 192 m (630 ft)
No. of spans 43
Construction start 1969
Construction end 1973
San Juanico Bridge connects the islands of Leyte and Samar by linking the city of Tacloban to the town of Santa Rita, Samar. It passes over the San Juanico Strait. The road infrastructure is the longest bridge in the Philippines spanning across a body of water measuring 2,164 m (7,100 ft) in total length. It has 43 steels spans with the primary span measuring 192 m (630 ft).
The bridge’s abutments are founded on steel H-piles while its piers are rock seated pedestals built using the Prepakt method, having single cylindrical shafts and tapered cantilevered copings.
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