Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu attended the opening ceremony of the Sustainable Urban Transportation Plan Project in his hometown Trabzon, where he went to make a series of visits. Minister Uraloğlu emphasized that they have started working on the Trabzon Rail System Line, which will respond to the travel demand between Akçaabat district, Meydan region, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon Bus Terminal and Trabzon Airport.
Minister Uraloğlu also pointed out that they continue their work with the vision of being a pioneer in the world in the Turkey Century, with human and environment-oriented, smart and safe integrated transportation systems and fast communication networks. Pointing out that they see transportation and communication investments as the basis of uninterrupted development, a competitive economy, social interaction, sustainable urbanism and prosperity, Uraloğlu said, “We have accomplished 22 years of work in the last 100 years under the leadership of our President. We have invested approximately 250 billion dollars in our country's transportation and communications infrastructure. From now on, we foresee investing approximately 195 billion dollars by 2053. “We planned this too.” he said.
Stating that they have implemented giant projects one after another such as Marmaray, Eurasia Tunnel, Istanbul Airport, Yavuz Sultan Selim, Osmangazi, 1915 Çanakkale Bridges, Izmir-Istanbul highway, Ankara-Niğde and Northern Marmara highways, Uraloğlu said, “We provide fast transportation to every point of our country with high standard, divided roads. We have made it possible to access it safely and comfortably. We increased our divided road length from 6 thousand 100 kilometers to 29 thousand 500 kilometers, and our highway length from 1714 kilometers to approximately 3 thousand 700 kilometers. We increased our railway network from 10 thousand 948 kilometers to 14 thousand 165 km. We also renewed our existing railway network almost from scratch. We have established both electrification and signaling infrastructure. Again, we built a 2 thousand 251 kilometer high speed train network from scratch, when there was no high speed train in our country. Since 2002, we have increased the number of active airports from 26 to 57 and our terminal capacity from 55 million passengers to approximately 338 million. "While international flights were operating to 50 destinations in 60 countries, we added 283 new destinations to our flight network and started flying to 343 destinations around the world." he said.
Minister Uraloğlu said that they increased the number of international ports in the maritime field from 152 to 190, the number of shipyards from 37 to 85, and the yacht mooring capacity from 8 thousand 500 to over 25 thousand. Stating that they completed the Black Sea Coastal Road, which is the main artery of transportation in the Black Sea and Trabzon, in this period, Uraloğlu said, “We completed the Zigana tunnel, Maçka tunnels and Tanjant road. We completed the most important sections of Kanuni Boulevard and opened it to traffic again. We are now working on the Boztepe-Değirmedenre connection. Likewise, we are rapidly carrying out tunnel work to connect Maçka Road directly to the coast. "We have accelerated our tunnel work in KOP, which is impassable in winter." said.
Stating that they have started the construction of the existing Trabzon Airport, which should be done as a priority, Uraloğlu said:
“We started our work to bring a new airport to Trabzon. We will add two fixed passenger bridges and shelters to the existing domestic terminal building. Especially the new international arrivals terminal and CIP building were urgent. By the end of the year, we want to complete the feasibility studies of the new 3-meter-long runway and the new terminal building of 240 thousand square meters with a capacity of 10 million passengers and start the tender process. . Afterwards, we will start the construction process of Trabzon Airport. "When completed, we will hopefully have realized a very valuable work that will serve Trabzon for many years to come."
