Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu and General Director of Highways Ahmet Gülşen went to Trabzon on Friday, September 8, to make a series of visits. Making a statement about the completed and ongoing transportation investments, Minister Uraloğlu emphasized that they increased the length of Trabzon's divided road, which was 2003 kilometers until 56, to 240 kilometers, and the length of bituminous hot mixture coated roads from 89 kilometers to 488 kilometers.
Stating that they have sealed the route where many works such as construction and improvement have been carried out for nearly two centuries with the New Zigana Tunnel, Uraloğlu said, “We will build the 14,5 kilometer long new Zigana Tunnel, which connects Trabzon to Bayburt, Aşkale and Erzurum via Gümüşhane, with double tubes.” We built as. More than 880 thousand vehicles have passed through our new Zigana Tunnel since the day it was opened. “The New Zigana Tunnel has been one of the pride and pride projects of Turkish engineering.” said. Our Minister said that the standard of the road extending from Trabzon to Erzurum, Ağrı and the Iranian border has increased by turning the Maçka-Karahava section into a divided road; He added that the smooth flow of traffic on the route to the centers and ports on the Black Sea coast was ensured.
Noting that 40 highway projects with a project cost of approximately 23 billion TL are ongoing throughout Trabzon and that Kanuni Boulevard is one of these projects, Uraloğlu continued his words as follows: “Kanuni Boulevard; It is a project that directly concerns the solution of the congestion in Trabzon city traffic. We are constructing the Kanuni Boulevard Road, with a total length of 28 kilometers, to the divided road standard with bituminous hot mixture coating. With the studies carried out to date; We opened 28 kilometers of the 17,6-kilometer Kanuni Boulevard, 17 kilometers of the 9,4-kilometer development connection roads and 17,9 kilometers of the 11,2-kilometer intersection branches. Currently, our construction work continues on the 2-kilometer section of Kanuni Boulevard between Yenicuma-4 Junction - Çukurçayır Junction and the 1-kilometer Değirmendere connection. We plan to put Boztepe Tunnel and viaduct into service. We aim to complete the entire project in 2024.”
Reminding that they started the work on the Trabzon Southern Ring Road, Uraloğlu said, “We plan to pass 43,8 kilometers of the Southern Ring Road, which consists of a total of 35,8 kilometers, with 15 tunnels and 2,1 kilometers with 14 viaducts. We will implement it in three parts. "We continue excavation and support work to reach the T-16,5 Tunnel portal at the beginning of the project, where the Ring Road separates from the Black Sea Coastal Road in the 1st section of 1 kilometers long." he said.
Uraloğlu is located on the 7th-17th lines of the Araklı-Bayburt Road, which provides access to Bayburt via the Araklı district. He stated that the construction work on the 10-kilometer section between XNUMX km and XNUMX km continues.