Minister Arslan Will Be YHT Stop In Emirdag

Minister Arslan will be YHT Stop in Emirdağ: Ahmet Arslan, Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications, Governor Aziz Yıldırım, deputies Ali Özkaya, Hatice Dudu Özkal, Mayor Burhanettin Çoban, Konya Regional Director of Highways Turgut Aydın, TCDD 7. Regional Director Enver Timurboğa was accompanied by representatives of public institutions and organizations under the Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications. Firstly, Ahmet Arslan, Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications received detailed information from authorized representatives of the company, who examined the overpass works on the Özdilek Junction in Afyonkarahisar-İzmir.
End of goal year end
During the examination, Minister Arslan reminded that there is a traffic jam at Özdilek Junction during the holidays and holidays; “In order to eliminate this congestion at the Özdilek junction and to ease those who will go to Ankara, Istanbul and Antalya, we are working on a bridge crossroad and a tunnel. Our goal is to be finished by the end of this year. I congratulate all our friends who work day and night for this cause and wish them continued success. " said.
Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications Ahmet Arslan, whose next program was the construction of the Köroğlu Tunnel on the high-speed train line between Afyonkarahisar and Ankara, made examinations in the tunnel. Minister Ahmet Arslan made a statement within the framework of the information he received from the authorities; “Huge investments are made in Afyonkarahisar province within our Ministry. We will connect Ankara to Antalya via Afyonkarahisar with the High Speed ​​Train construction. In other words, I can say that Afyonkarahisar will be an important crossroad in this sense, while high-speed train networks are knitting all parts of our country. In order to finish the big projects that will serve these people at this crossroads, we add our night to our day with our friends. We are exhibiting different studies in each stage of high-speed train projects that will extend to Ankara-Afyonkarahisar and then to Izmir. "We made a tender to extend the high-speed train line from Ankara to Polatlı to Afyonkarahisar."
7 km tunnel
Minister Arslan said, “The road we had to do within the framework of this tender was 162 kilometers. We are working on all 130 kilometers of this road. We are at the stage of finishing the expropriation works in the last 30 kilometers in the direction of Polatlı. When they are finished, we will start actual work there. When you consider the entire work, it has been realized at the level of 26 percent as of today. There are tenders and studies that have been initiated for the section of the same line from Afyonkarahisar to Izmir. We also have tunnels of about 7 kilometers along this route. We have already completed 70 percent of all tunnels. Of course, a wiring will be done, final processes, coatings will be made and then mechanical and signaling works will be done. After the tender process is over, there will be no areas left in the high-speed train line from Ankara to Izmir, where no tender or work is done. We aim to complete the section from Afyonkarahisar to Ankara in 2018. Again, even though the deadline for the end of 2019 seems to be the end of XNUMX, our work continues to connect Izmir to Ankara via Afyonkarahisar, and Ankara to Izmir via Afyonkarahisar, ”he said.
Serkan Koyuncu, Head of AK Party Emirdağ District and his administration took part in the program. Here, it was learned that AK Party Afyonkarahisar Deputy Al Özkaya also confirmed that the High Speed ​​Train, which was previously discussed, will have a stop in Emirdağ. It has been reached that it was agreed that the YHT stop to be located in Emirdağ will increase the added value of Emirdağ and that new good news will come to Emirdağ in the coming days. The program of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications Minister Ahmet Arslan in our city ended with the collective photograph taken at the end of the construction of the Köroğlu Tunnel.