The Eurasia Tunnel, which connects the Asian and European continents with a highway tunnel passing under the sea floor for the first time, will be put into service on Tuesday, December 20, with a ceremony attended by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Maritime Transport and Communications Minister Ahmet Arslan, prior to the opening day-night that all Turkey's eagerly wait endlessly while examining the work site, received information. Minister Arslan stated that the Eurasia Tunnel will start to serve as of December 21st at 07.00:14 and will remain open for 07.00 hours a day in the first place. Minister Arslan stated that the Eurasia Tunnel, which will serve between 21.00-30 every day, will serve on a 24-hour basis as of January XNUMX, after the necessary controls are made and the systems are adjusted.
The Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications, Ahmet Arslan, visited the Eurasia Tunnel construction site on days before the opening of 20 in December. Arslan Arıoğlu, Chairman of Yapı Merkezi Holding, and Seok Jae Seo, CEO of ATAŞ, and Mustafa Tanrıverdi, Assistant General Manager of ATAŞ, met 7 day 24 hours. Arıoğlu, project engineer in charge in order to give all workers in Turkey and a very valuable work enthusiastically and proudly told me how it works.
Initially 14 hours will be open per day
After receiving information about the project, Minister Ahmet Arslan made a statement to the press and stressed that the Eurasia Tunnel has received many awards in Turkey and abroad, but the biggest of these awards is the opening of the Eurasia Tunnel to the public service in December. Minister Arslan gave the following information on how the Eurasia Tunnel will work after the 20 opening ceremony in December:
Iz At the beginning we will run the tunnel in 14 hours a day. As long as we make the necessary system checks and adjustments, we will extend this period and 30 will return to 24 hours of operation as of January. 21 We intend to start accepting vehicles at 07.00 on the morning of December, and serving 30-07.00 every day until 21.00 January at the latest. UM
“There will be no way to switch with the dollar-euro“
Minister Ahmet Arslan also made statements about the cost of the Eurasia Tunnel:
Da In our project, we didn't have to collect dollars from our people, we didn't have an application. The cost of the Eurasia Tunnel will be determined in Turkish Lira as of Christmas and the fee will be valid for one year. At the end of the year, we will re-escalate and set a fee. There is no way to change the dollar with the euro. We will consider what will happen in the 10 daily period before January and how we can provide convenience to our people. 21 December-31 December to do a different application and we will consider it as a social responsibility project. We intend not to make it free, but we will do an application that will benefit from social responsibility. Ücretsiz
Minister Arslan, the public opinion on the broad survey of the Eurasian Tunnel also made a statement about the name survey. The Ministry of Transport said the Eurasian Tunnel could be found to be a more striking, more meaningful and more aesthetic name, and that the public resorted to the opinion of the citizens but that it had come to a different place and that this situation upset them. Minister Arslan, "the values and richness of our country can not reach a place by competing with each other," he said.
Car journey between two continents will land in 15 minutes
The Eurasia Tunnel was tendered by the General Directorate of Infrastructure Investments (AYGM) of the Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communication with the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) model on the Kazlıçeşme-Göztepe line, and was built by the Yapı Merkezi and SK E&C partnership. The 14,6 kilometer-long Bosphorus Crossing is the most important phase of the project, which consists of three main sections of 3,4 kilometers. In addition, arrangements were made in the tunnel approach roads on the Asian and European sides. The existing 6-lane roads were extended to 8 lanes, while improvements such as U-turn, intersection and pedestrian level crossings were made. With the Eurasia Tunnel, the journey time on the Kazlıçeşme-Göztepe line, where the traffic is very intense, will decrease from 100 minutes to 15 minutes.
Opening 20 in December
As one of the most important investments of the Republic of Turkey, 20 groundbreaking Eurasia Tunnel opened in the participation of the public transport to be held in December 2016 with a spectacular ceremony. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications Minister Ahmet Arslan will attend the ceremony together with many local and foreign guests.
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