BAGAN DATUK, Oct 7 — The Sultan of Perak Sultan Nazrin Shah in the present day opened the Bagan Datuk bridge right here and consented to it being named Sultan Nazrin Shah Bridge.
The roughly 1.5-kilometre-long bridge, however at a value of RM460 million, spans throughout the Perak River.
Sultan Nazrin, accompanied by Raja Permaisuri Perak Tuanku Zara Salim, was greeted on arrival on the occasion by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who’s Bagan Datuk Member of Parliament, Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Saarani Mohamad and Works Minister Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi.
Sultan of Perak Sultan Nazrin Shah attends the launch of the Bagan Datuk Bridge October 7, 2023. Also current are Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Saarani Mohamad and Works Minister Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi. — eNM pic
Also in attendance had been the Raja Dihilir Perak Raja Iskandar Dzurkarnain Sultan Idris and the Raja Muda Perak Raja Jaafar Raja Muda Musa.
Meanwhile, Ahmad Zahid, in his speech, stated the opening of the Sultan Nazrin Shah Bridge would entice extra folks to go to the Bagan Datuk district, therefore offering the locals with financial and social spillover impact.
It has additionally ended the lengthy anticipate the bridge by the locals and is a aid to them now that they’ll take pleasure in a shorter journey distance of fifty kilometres or multiple hour, he stated, including that the ground-breaking ceremony for the bridge was held in 2017.
He stated the Sultan Nazrin Shah Bridge can be an icon and pleasure of the folks in Bagan Datuk because it had been entered in The Malaysia Book of Records 2023 because the Longest Elevated Pile Slab Carriageway and the Most Pile Points on Elevated Pile Slab Carriageway. — eNM
Sultan of Perak Sultan Nazrin Shah visits the Bagan Datuk Bridge throughout its launch October 7, 2023. — eNM pic
