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FROM BRUSSELS TO BANGKOK (Belgium hosted the first World Expo since World…

- - - - “Fifty million people would come to Brussels and we needed to transform the city,”
      - Now 82
      - A bridge was built on Leopold II Avenue
        
        The structure would remain there until the early ‘80s
        
        when a tunnel was constructed to replace it
- - - - they agreed to give the bridge to Bangkok
      - The parts were then shipped and stored along Witthayu Road
        
        The entire load 2,000 tonnes of steel
        
        transported from Antwerp to Klong Toey Port in two shipments
        
        The first ship brought 40 bridge elements and arrived in Bangkok in February 1988
        
        The second ship docked in March and unloaded the remaining 83 elements, the substructure and other materials.