Suramadu Bridge

SURAMADU BRIDGE

Now, I am going to tell you guys about Suramadu Bridge. So, Suramadu Bridge is a bridge that connects Java Island and Madura Island.

The location of Suramadu Bridge is at the Pointer.

This is the closer version of it

So the bridge is near the Surabaya harbor. The bridge is at the east of the harbor. This bridge is inaugurated to built by Megawati Soekarnoputri at 20^th August 2003 and it’s inaugurated for opening by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at 10^th June 2009

This bridge is made to make encourage and make the growth of Madura faster and it’s used for transporting people from Madura Island to Java Island and the other way around.

It has the length of 5.438 metres. This bridge is divided on 3 sections, that is: main bridge, approach bridge, and causeway . Approximately 4.5 Trillion Rupiah (around 343 Million USD) used for this bridge.

Suramadu Bridge

The name Suramadu comes from the islands that this bridge connects. Surabaya and Madura.