Another 20-kilometer section of the Erzurum-İspir-Rize Road, which connects Erzurum to the Black Sea via İspir without interruption, was completed and opened to traffic with a ceremony attended by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Speaking at the ceremony attended by Minister Adil Karaismailoğlu, General Manager Abdulkadir Uraloğlu and many citizens, the President said that the İspir-Rize Provincial Border Road is one of the important transportation projects that provides the connection between the Black Sea ports and Erzurum.
“It will be able to handle uninterrupted, safe and comfortable vehicle traffic on the route in summer and winter”
Noting that they have officially opened this 20-kilometer road, with 1,5 separate tunnels and a bridge with a total length of 3 kilometers, the President said: It will be able to handle uninterrupted, safe and comfortable vehicle traffic in summer and winter.” he said. Erdoğan added that with the completion of the Kırık and Dallıkavak Tunnels, which are under construction, they will completely complete this project, which is of vital importance for our country, together with Erzurum.
President Erdoğan continued his speech as follows: “We are connecting Erzurum to the Black Sea and opening Erzurum to the world from the Black Sea. Now Ovit has become the highway for us. When it's all over, we will completely relax and reach the Black Sea from here. We will go to Bayburt, Gümüşhane Zigana, and from there to Trabzon.”
“We increased the divided road distance that we took over from 49 kilometers in Erzurum to 620 kilometers”
President Erdoğan stated that they have increased the length of the divided highway they took over from 49 kilometers in Erzurum to 620 kilometers, and announced that they will put a significant part of the tunnel and road projects under construction into service next year. “We are working hard to rebuild and build Erzurum from all sides,” Erdogan said. I wish the projects to be opened today will be beneficial for Erzurum.” said.
Project merges with Ovit Tunnel
The İspir-Rize Provincial Border Road, which starts at the intersection of the D-5 State Road and the D-050 Road, 925 km west of İspir, merges with the Ovit Tunnel. Within the scope of the project, 593 tunnels with a total length of 1 meters, including the Özbağ-332 Tunnel of 2 meters, Özbağ-516 Tunnel of 441 meters and Özlüce Tunnel of 3 meters, each of which consists of double tubes, and the Özbağ Bridge with a length of 30 meters were built.
Contributed to the socio-economic development of the region
Thanks to the project, a fast, safe and comfortable transportation service has been offered to our citizens with the quality of a divided road instead of the existing road, which can be passed with bends due to the mountainous terrain on the route and allows slow and heavy flow of traffic. In addition, the north-south axis linking the Eastern Black Sea to Eastern Anatolia was transformed into a divided road, contributing to the socio-economic development of Rize, Erzurum and the surrounding settlements, primarily agriculture, animal husbandry and tourism.
A total of 8,1 million TL savings will be achieved annually”
The project, located on the north-south axis connecting the provinces of Rize - Erzurum - Bingöl - Diyarbakır, has increased the transportation standard of Black Sea ports with Eastern and Middle Eastern countries via Eastern Anatolia. With the project, which reduces the travel time between İspir – 10th Region Border from 20 minutes to 10 minutes, a total of 5,4 million TL savings will be achieved, including 2,7 million TL from time and 8,1 million TL from fuel oil, and exhaust emissions will be reduced by 554 tons annually.
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