Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Adil Karaismailoğlu stated that an "epic" was written with the "reform" efforts made in highway investments in the last 20 years, and that a historical threshold was reached on this road with the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge. Karaismailoğlu, “This unique project; It is a message of the new Turkey 'to those who seek help from internal and external conflicts and fail to protect their ancestral heritage'. Our 1915 Çanakkale Bridge will also reduce the transit time, which takes 1.5 hours, sometimes hours, to just 6 minutes with the ferry service between Lapseki and Gelibolu, as the project of the 'best's. Thus, it will put a seal on the Dardanelles Strait, which was watered with the blood of our ancestors.”
Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Adil Karaismailoğlu attended the consultation meeting between the General Directorate of Highways, TÜHİS and the Turkish Yol-İş Union. Stating that they attach great importance to this meeting, which will discuss the scope of the collective bargaining agreement and the union-employer relations, along with the social security legislation, Karaismailoğlu said, “Highways are the lifeblood of our country, together with all our other modes of transportation. As we always say, our roads are like streams. While providing new investment opportunities, production opportunities and employment opportunities wherever it passes, it expands our economy and develops commercial life. It adds vitality to education and cultural life. Thus, we bring jobs, food, prosperity and peace to our nation. Under the vision and leadership of our President; The rate of our highways is 2003 percent of the 2021 trillion 1 billion lira investment we made for our country's transportation and communication investments in 169-61. The investment amount exceeded 711 billion liras.
WE DOUBLED THE LENGTH OF OUR HIGHWAYS
Emphasizing that an "epic" has been written and will continue to be written with the 'reform' efforts carried out in the literal sense of the word in Turkey's highway investments in the last 20 years, Karaismailoğlu continued his speech as follows:
“When the AK Party came to power, we increased the length of divided roads, which was 6 thousand 100 kilometers across our country, to 28 thousand 550 kilometers together. We doubled the total length of our motorways. We took it from 714 kilometers and took it to 3 kilometers. We took the tunnel length from 532 kilometers with a 12-fold increase and reached 50 kilometers. We took the bridge and viaduct lengths from 651 kilometers and increased it to 311 kilometers. We all experience the justified pride of moving forward with our country's transportation infrastructure by working hard on a 724/7 basis in our highway investments. Because it is our aim to increase the welfare of our people and to offer a prosperous future to our youth. We want to transform our Turkey into one of the 24 largest economies in the world. We are at the final turn on this road. We still have a lot of work to do though. Therefore; We say 'don't stop, just keep going'. Working like ants; Together we will continue to build our roads, increase our prosperity, and support Turkey's development move. We will support these historic steps with our new goals. On the 10th anniversary of our Republic; We will increase the length of the highway to 100 thousand 3 kilometers and the length of the divided road to 843 thousand 29 kilometers. We will increase the bridge and viaduct length to 516 kilometers and the tunnel length to 771 kilometers. To achieve our goals, we will work together shoulder to shoulder, believing and willingly, as we did yesterday, and we will succeed again.”
1915 ÇANAKKALE BRIDGE IS THE MESSAGE OF NEW TURKEY
Pointing out that another historical threshold has been reached on this road, Minister of Transport Karaismailoğlu said, “We will inaugurate our 1915 Çanakkale Bridge and Malkara-Çanakkale Highway project on February 26. We will continue to illuminate the future of the new Turkey together with our land passenger brothers. We completed the construction of our 1915 Çanakkale Bridge and Malkara-Çanakkale Highway project with an investment of 2 billion 545 million Euros. This unique project, which we have built by working day and night with approximately 5 personnel and 100 construction machines; It is a message of the new Turkey 'to those who seek help from internal and external conflicts and fail to protect their ancestral heritage'. It is one of the biggest indicators that our country is the leading country in its region. Our Bridge, which will symbolize the 740th anniversary of our Republic with its 2023-meter middle span; It will have the title of 'the world's largest mid-span suspension bridge'. Its 100-meter steel towers will mark 318 March 18, when the Çanakkale Naval Victory was won. It will be a suspension bridge with the highest towers in the world. With this project; While the Malkara-Çanakkale Highway route will be shortened by 1915 kilometers, our 40 Çanakkale Bridge will also reduce the transit time, which takes 1915 hours, sometimes hours, to only 1.5 minutes with the ferry service between Lapseki-Gelibolu as the project of the 'best's. Thus, it will put a seal on the Dardanelles, which was watered with the blood of our ancestors. The 6 Çanakkale Bridge will not only be a bridge, but also a unique monument that carries the memory of our martyrs. Our Bridge, which the Dardanelles will carry like a ruby necklace, will be one of the most beautiful and true works of the new Turkey, which respects the ancestors of the martyrs, carries the flag of national independence and competes with the world.”
TOGETHER WE HAVE SAVE 37.5 BILLION TL ANNUALLY
Karaismailoğlu, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, who stated that the investments in highways between 2003 and 2020 made a very serious contribution to the Turkish economy, said that; He said that it exceeded 109 billion 250 million liras for Gross National Product and 237 billion 539 million liras for production. Emphasizing that the contributions of the investments are not limited to these figures, Karaismailoğlu said, “As of the current situation; Our citizens, traveling on divided roads with a total length of 28 thousand 550 kilometers, saved approximately 447 million liters of fuel with an annual time of 2.020 million hours. Due to the shortening of the travel time, approximately; 12 billion 788 million liras of labor savings and 24 billion 740 million liras of fuel savings; Together, we have achieved a total annual savings of 37 billion 528 million liras. In addition, we have achieved a reduction of 4,44 million tons from emission, which is very critical for the protection of the environment. We resolutely support the steps taken to grow our country's economy with investment, employment, production, exports and current surplus, under all conditions."
WE HAVE ALWAYS KEPT OUR CONSTRUCTIONS OPEN WITH THE MEASURES TAKEN DURING THE PANDEMIC PROCESS
Expressing that they always keep the construction sites open, especially with the measures taken during the pandemic process, Karaismailoğlu said that while the world economy shrank by 2020 percent in 3,1, Turkey is the second country to grow by 1,8 percent. He noted that in 2021, Turkey doubled the previous year's success by growing 7,2 percent in the first quarter, 21,7% in the second quarter and 7,8 percent in the third quarter. Karaismailoğlu stated that the record of the Republic's history in exports was broken in 2021, despite these negativities, and made the following assessments:
“Your contributions to the foreign trade and growth figures provided by our country after the pandemic are enormous. All these contributions; We are doing this as a giant family of 74 thousand 64 people. We support our employees, who work hard for all this growth and development, in collective bargaining agreements. We do our best to ensure that they are not crushed by inflation. Representing our Ministry, we also offer social support in the Collective Bargaining Agreement of TÜHİS and our Yol-İş Union, valid until February 2023. In our 19th term Collective Bargaining Agreement; While expanding women's employment areas, we also provided contribution cuts and service wage support. Our relations with our trade unions and employee-employer relations continue intensively and effectively in the related and related organizations of our Ministry. Keeping our roads open for maintenance and traffic is as important as constructing highways, divided roads, bridges and viaducts. Our highways, snow-fighting works; 12 thousand 645 personnel and 10 thousand 916 machines and equipment are successfully carried out in 446 centers on a 7/24 basis with the support of the vehicle tracking system, and will continue to do so.”
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