Long Bien Bridge has a big hole

Around 11 a.m. on May 28, people moving across Long Bien Bridge (direction from Tran Nhat Duat Street, Hoan Kiem District to Long Bien) had to stop when they saw the bridge surface appear. a hole about 1.2 m long, 0.6 m wide.

The leader of Ha Hai Railway Joint Stock Company (the unit that manages and maintains the Long Bien bridge) confirmed that there was a subsidence of the bridge deck sheet under the bridge span No. 6. As soon as the information was received, the company brought the plate. Concrete arrives to fill the puncture. The cause of the perforation is currently being determined.

The “hole” on the bridge has been “patched” (Photo: VNA Newspaper)

By 12:30 a.m., the basic problem had been fixed and people were able to circulate normally. “Because the bridge is about 130 years old, the structure is very weak, and there is also a project to repair the pedestrian beam of the bridge,” the leader of Ha Hai Railway Joint Stock Company said in Dan Tri newspaper.

According to Dan Tri, before that, on May 4, the pedestrian crossing on Long Bien bridge also had a big hole. This hole is about the width of an adult to get through, seeing the parts and structure of the bridge below.