Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Adil Karaismailoğlu stated that they will put the Adıyaman Narince-Gerger Road, which will facilitate access to the World Heritage Mountain Nemrut, into service as soon as possible and said, “With the completion of the project, our road route will be shortened by 2 kilometers, and the travel time will decrease from 46 minutes to 25 minutes. We will save a total of 21 million liras annually,” he said.
Our Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Adil Karaismailoğlu attended the Adıyaman Narince-Gerger Road Groundbreaking Ceremony. Karaismailoğlu said, “Thanks to the importance we attach to its projects as the Ministry, today we connect every province and every region of our country to the world, and as the Ministry, we act as a very strong lever for the development and welfare of Turkey”. He said that more than 1 percent of the spending over 653 trillion 60 billion liras made for Turkey's transportation and communication investments belongs to highways.
WE WILL CONNECT HALF OF OUR ROAD NETWORK WITH THE DIVIDED ROAD STANDARD
Explaining that they made an investment of 2003 billion 2022 million liras for highways between 995 and 900, Karaismailoğlu said, “In other words, we have almost completed the works that will be done in 100 years on the highway, as in other areas of transportation in our country, in a period of 20 years. In the last 20 years, on our highways; We increased the length of the divided road to over 28 kilometers. In 816, we will increase this figure to 2023 thousand kilometers in total. Well; On highways, we say 'no stop, keep going'. Our divided road target is 30 thousand kilometers. We will bring half of our total road network to the divided road standard. At the same time, we are rapidly increasing the road quality on our highways. On highways, we cross steep mountains with tunnels, and deep valleys with viaducts and bridges. During the period of our governments, the length of the tunnel; We took it from 38 kilometers and increased it to 50 kilometers. In the 663th anniversary of our Republic, we increase our tunnel length to 100 kilometers. We also increased the total length of the bridge and viaduct to 720 kilometers. Our target for 735; to carry the total length over 2023 kilometers”.
ROAD ROUTE WILL BE SHORTENED 2 KILOMETER
Karaismailoğlu stated that they carried out the site delivery of the Narince-Gerger road project in June of this year, and gave the following information about the project:
“Within the scope of our Narince Gerger project, there is a single 33-kilometer road and a 3,5-kilometer Gerger Ring Road. We will start working feverishly to put our Narince-Gerger Road, the foundation of which we laid today, at your service as soon as possible. With the completion of the project, our road route will be shortened by 2 kilometers. Travel time will be reduced from 46 minutes to 25 minutes. Like this; We will raise the physical and geometric standards of the road. We will save a total of 18,2 million liras annually, 3 million liras from time and 21 million liras from fuel. With the new road we will build, access to Mount Nemrut, located on the Narince-Gerger Road route, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, and one of the important tourism centers not only in Turkey but also in the world, will be facilitated. Travels of domestic and foreign tourists will become more comfortable. This will invigorate tourism, reinvigorate trade, and revitalize our city. Each kilometer of road we build also contributes to the development of production, employment, trade, education, culture and tourism of the region where it is built. Our new roads add vitality to the places where they are built and go, like a 'stream'.”
WE ARE READY TO PROVIDE COMFORTABLE, SAFE AND ECONOMIC TRANSPORTATION OPPORTUNITIES
Karaismailoğlu, regardless of region, in the transportation and communication infrastructure works, whichever investment was made to the west, to the east; Emphasizing that whatever investments were made in the north, they did the same to the south, “In our working system, 'service to the people is a requirement of service to God.' We, too, continue the road and road construction without stopping. In line with the targets of the Turkey Century project announced by our President to the whole world, we will continue our work on a 2053/7 basis, day and night, to bring our projects to life within the scope of our 24 Transport and Logistics Master Plan. We are willing to get tired, we are ready to provide more comfortable, safe and economical transportation opportunities for our future and our grandchildren.”
Karaismailoğlu added that they will also examine the Kahta-Narince-Siverek Road construction works and Adıyaman Hospital Different Level Junction within the scope of the Adıyaman program.
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