Qualla: Bến Thủy Bridge 1 https://qualla.com/ben-thuy-bridge-1 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:18 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/7/4/ben-thuy-bridge-1-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Bến Thủy Bridge 1 https://qualla.com/ben-thuy-bridge-1 Bến Thủy Bridge 1: Introduction https://qualla.com/ben-thuy-bridge-1/ Photo credit Phó Nháy (talk) 16:10, 9 June 2011 (UTC), Public domain. Three ferries. That was the entire capacity for moving people, motorbikes, trucks and freight across the Cả River between two provinces whose main arteries both ran straight at the water. Everything on Vietnam's north-south highway had to stop at Bến Thủy and wait its turn, or take the pontoon bridge when one was in place. The queues at the landing were part of the region's texture — hours lost as routine, a bottleneck so old that nobody under sixty had known the crossing any other way. Ending it took four years, five hundred workers and a dam built inside the river.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/7/4/ben-thuy-bridge-1-wp/w774-b-n-th-y-bridge-1-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bến Thủy Bridge 1: Draining the River https://qualla.com/ben-thuy-bridge-1/ Photo credit Phó Nháy (talk) 16:10, 9 June 2011 (UTC), Public domain. Construction started in 1986, part of a wider push to unblock the region's infrastructure and its economy. More than 500 people worked on the project, and many of them did not commute to it — they relocated, moving into quarters built on the construction site and living beside th...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/7/4/ben-thuy-bridge-1-wp/w774-b-n-th-y-bridge-1-draining-the-river.mp3 0:06 2 full Bến Thủy Bridge 1: What They Built https://qualla.com/ben-thuy-bridge-1/ Photo credit Phó Nháy (talk) 16:10, 9 June 2011 (UTC), Public domain. The finished structure runs 630.5 metres over thirteen spans, and it is not one bridge so much as four techniques stitched together. A prestressed reinforced concrete T-beam carries the leading span. Steel truss girders take the main channel, the deep-water stretch where the pump...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/7/4/ben-thuy-bridge-1-wp/w774-b-n-th-y-bridge-1-what-they-built.mp3 0:06 3 full Bến Thủy Bridge 1: Proof by Closure https://qualla.com/ben-thuy-bridge-1/ Photo credit Phó Nháy (talk) 16:10, 9 June 2011 (UTC), Public domain. The bridge's importance became clearest when it stopped working. Between 2009 and 2010 a series of serious motor accidents raised real concerns about the structure's integrity, and engineers began closing it without warning to run structural tests. Each closure backed up traffic ...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/7/4/ben-thuy-bridge-1-wp/w774-b-n-th-y-bridge-1-proof-by-closure.mp3 0:06 4 full Bến Thủy Bridge 1: Handing Over https://qualla.com/ben-thuy-bridge-1/ Photo credit Phó Nháy (talk) 16:10, 9 June 2011 (UTC), Public domain. Bến Thủy Bridge 2 opened in September 2012, a box girder structure 996 metres long, built alongside its predecessor to take the through traffic off it. National Route 1 now runs across the newer bridge, bypassing Vinh, and the 1990 span has become part of the old road — local jou...

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