title: Bunting Island Bridge
text: # Bunting Island Bridge
  
  5°52′43.7″N 100°20′45.8″E﻿ / ﻿5.878806°N 100.346056°E﻿ / 5.878806; 100.346056
  
  Bunting Island Bridge is a bridge that connects Bunting Island to mainland Yan, Kedah state, Malaysia. The bridge was built by the Malaysian Public Works Department (JKR) while the main contractor was Gamuda Berhad.
  
  ## History
  
  It was constructed between 2002 and 2005.
  
  The bridge remains underused and has become a white elephant project. It has been widely criticised for the facts that it had served no purpose of linking to an unpopulated island which incurred a project cost of RM 120 million.
  
  Disenchantment of the locals remains unknown to the rest of the country.
  
  ## Features
  
  It is a 2.3-kilometre-long (1.4 mi) × 13.0-metre-wide (42.7 ft) sea crossing consisting of a 1.8-kilometre-long (1.1 mi) bridge, a 0.1-kilometre-long (0.062 mi) causeway connecting Bunting Island to the bridge and a 0.4-kilometre-long (0.25 mi) causeway connecting mainland Kedah to the bridge. The bridge is an arch cable-stayed bridge with a main suspended span of 80 m in length and approach spans of precast concrete box beams with spans of 30 m in length. The causeways have fill embankments on piled foundations with rock armouring.
  
  