By Eleni Bota
The project of the Urban Tunnel of Heliopolis is in the starting phase, while the studies of the project have been locked to be prepared by Lamda Development.
The Ministry’s immediate plans include the extension of the Western Regional Avenue Ymittos towards Elliniko. It will even include an underground tunnel in Ilioupoli and new bridges on Vouliagmeni Street.
Recently, the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport K. Karamanlis, responding to a topical question, acknowledged that the implementation of the project should be boosted and for this reason, as he said, “the Ministry has asked Lamda Development to finance the study of the project which is included in the PDE 2021-2027”.
As the Minister said, “there are three main projects in Attica” and he added: “One is the extension of Kymi Avenue, which we have tendered, because it had a study maturity, on December 31, 2021, and this project will be contracted very quickly. The second project has to do with the expansions in Rafina and Lavrio. And this is an extremely vital project that will be able to decongest a very large part of Attica, which the truth is that it is expanding. And the third, of course is the project we’re discussing today. It’s a technically very difficult project, and that’s why they want a very serious study group to study it.”
The Ministry’s goal for Vouliagmenis Avenue is to “liberate” it from the traffic lights and turn it into a highway that will feed road arteries such as the urban tunnel, which will act as “connecting links” between the 3 rings of the capital.
According to the plans so far, the project envisages the construction of a tunnel a little more than 3 km long, with 3 lanes per traffic stream, without exits, which will start sinking at the height of Kaisariani and will end up connecting with Vouliagmenis Avenue at the height of the borders of Agios Dimitrios and Ilioupoli, a little south of the Metro station of Agios Dimitrios. The journey will take a few minutes where today, at rush hour, it takes over 30 minutes. It is a very important project that, in combination with the redevelopment in Elliniko, will change the map of the movements of the basin.
Source: Capital
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