The foundation of the Ankara-İzmir High Speed Train project was laid 8 years ago. The point reached is frustration. Construction on the Afyonkarahisar-Banaz line has not continued for 2 years.
According to the news of Berkay SAĞOL from BİLGÜN; The foundation of Ankara-İzmir High Speed Train (YHT) project was laid in 2013. It has been announced that 8 percent of the project infrastructure has been completed in the 43 years that have passed. During this period, the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure changed 7 times. At this point, it was learned that the construction in some areas has completely stopped.
IT WILL END IN 2019
In the project, the construction areas were divided into construction zones as Polatlı-Afyonkarahisar, Afyonkarahisar-Banaz, Banaz-Eşme, Eşme-Salihli, Salihli-Manisa. The Polatlı-Afyonkarahisar section of the YHT line is planned to be completed by the end of 2021, and the Afyonkarahisar-İzmir section by the end of 2022. However, construction on the Afyonkarahisar-Banaz line has not continued for about 2 years.
Tekfen İnşaat ve Tesisat A.Ş., a subsidiary of Tekfen Holding, awarded the tender for the Afyonkarahisar-Banaz line in 2016. and Doğuş Construction and Trade Inc. Received Business Partnership. The completion process of the tender for the Afyonkarahisar-Uşak (Banaz) Section and Afyonkarahisar Direct Pass Infrastructure Construction of the Ankara-İzmir YHT Project, which was purchased for a total price of 879 million TL, was announced as 2016 months in 36. Accordingly, this line was supposed to be completed in 2019.
In the next period, Tekfen İnşaat ve Tesisat A.Ş., a subsidiary of Tekfen Holding. and Doğuş Construction and Trade Inc. The Joint Venture has terminated the tender. This time, ERG İnşaat won the tender, which was negotiated in 2020, with a price of 2 billion 163 euros, that is, approximately 22 billion liras. The tender was approved by the Council of State in June of this year; however, although about 6 months have passed, the construction has not started yet.
ERG İnşaat had previously come to the fore with the Adana-Pozantı highway tender with a build-operate-transfer model worth 4 billion Euros.
MUST ACCOUNT
İsmail Özdemir, Secretary General of the United Transport Workers Union (BTS), affiliated to KESK, said that the projects for which serious appropriations were allocated were not created according to the needs of the public, and that the problem stemmed from this. Speaking to BirGün, Özdemir made the following assessment: “The appropriations allocated to the projects are created entirely according to the wishes of the contractors. When we look at the field as a result of the money paid, we either see projects that have not been completed despite a long time, or we see that works that are not suitable for the project are done. We are uncomfortable both as employees of these institutions and as citizens. These shortcomings and damages are also revealed in the TCA reports. Those responsible for these acts must be held accountable before the law. It is necessary to be more disciplined and supervise them while giving tenders.”
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