It is the 13th Bridge that crosses over the Chao Phraya River, This bridge was build from the idea of H.M.KING BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ, King rama IX presented to the Bangkok metropolitan administration in 1995 That an additional bridge crossing over the Chao phraya river should be built to support the increasing of traffic which was generate from the parallel Borommaratchachonnani road,and also to support more transportations between Bangkok side and Thon buri side.
The Construction was started in 1998 and took 24 months to complete, the total amount of budget utilized in designing and constructing of the bridge is amounted to 3,170 millions bath. Continue reading “Rama VIII Bridge Bangkok”