Balıklıdere Bridge Construction Continues Fast

The construction of the Balıklıdere Bridge, which connects the Otosansit and Değirmenönü neighborhoods, which Bursa Metropolitan Municipality started to construct in order to create an alternative route to the south of the Ankara-İzmir highway, continues rapidly.

The Metropolitan Municipality, which has implemented many investments such as rail systems, new roads, smart intersections and public transportation in order to produce radical solutions to the transportation problem in Bursa, gives a breath of fresh air to transportation with new bridges. The Metropolitan Municipality, which aims to create alternative routes especially to relieve the Ankara-İzmir highway from its loads, provides a new alternative route between Kaplıkaya and Kestel in the south of the road. On this route, the Metropolitan Municipality, which had previously connected the Değirmenönü and Karapınar neighborhoods with a bridge, completed the Kaplıkaya Bridge for the connection of the Siteler and Bağlaraltı neighborhoods and opened it to transportation. A new bridge is being built over Balıklıdere, which is located in the easternmost part of this route and separates Otosansit and Değirmenönü districts, with a total length of 120 meters, with 2 lanes coming and 2 lanes going. Concrete pouring continues rapidly in the sections of the bridge whose beam assemblies have been completed.

An essential alternative

Metropolitan Mayor Alinur Aktaş said that they are trying to create new alternative routes to reduce the loads on the Ankara-İzmir road, especially the Acemler Junction. Reminding that there is no road crossing on Balıklıdere, which is located between Cumalıkızık and Değirmenönü neighborhoods in Yıldırım district, and the land is steep, the transition between the two neighborhoods is provided via the Ankara-İzmir Road, and said, “This causes traffic jams on the road. For this reason, in order to connect the two neighborhoods; We are constructing a 20.60 meter wide, 2-lane, 2-meter-long, 4-span bridge. After the bridges built over Hacivat and Deliçay streams before, with the completion of this bridge, an important alternative route will be formed between Kestel and Kaplıkaya. In this way, the loads on the Ankara road will also decrease a little," he said.