On Tuesday, April 23, it will be delivered by the prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis its southern part E65 which ensures an easy transition from Lamia to Kalambaka, recalled Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Nikos Tachiaosspeaking to ERTnews for all the ongoing major projects that “will support local economies”, stressing that without the necessary workforce the undertaking is difficult. “Tomorrow the ribbon will be cut just before the impressive three-kilometer tunnel before Xyniada” and the Easter excursionists will go from the new road to Karditsa, Trikala, Lake Plastira, the mountains of Mouzakiou, her Argitheas, in its mountains Kalambakas, that is, in places that were tested by “Daniel”, as Mr. Tachiaos said. The Kalambaka – Egnatia section will be delivered at the end of 2025 and on February 6, 2027, the project in Kasteli, Crete, where there is however a need to find 400 workers, as emphasized by the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport. With three contracts, the Patras – Pyrgos project will also be delivered in 2025. Nikos Tachiaos mentioned road projects of the order of 900 million for the affected Thessaly, while he also spoke about an auction in the summer of railway projects of 470 million for the redevelopment of the line between Domokos and Larissa and the vertical axes Larissa – Volos and Paleofarsalo – Kalambaka.
“All the projects require the expropriations to proceed. And the big problem that is not known, is that there is no staff, there are no workers, crews, machine operators.
Running today as many construction sites as we have opened as a government in Greece is a very difficult undertaking,” said Nikos Tachiaos. In Crete, for example, the Kastelli airport, which is a huge project, is missing about 400 workers, while the foreign ministry is trying to secure manpower through transnational agreements such as with India.
“In Thessaly very soon in the summer we will open many construction sites to be able to do the restoration of Daniel, big projects, many bridges, many roads will need intervention”, added the deputy minister.
BOAK: Problem with expropriations
“We can’t ask for BOAK and they get in the way. And I say this because we have seen too many abstentions regarding the trials related to the State in Crete. One concession is the Chania Heraklion section, a very important project, which needs some time for its contractualization because it is a concession, i.e. it will be repaid with tolls. In other words, the banks and the loans must come into play,” stressed the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport. With 270 million from the Recovery Fund, and the rest of the financial contribution, where necessary from the State, the project passes through two large settlements, Rethymno and Heraklion, where there are reactions to the carving. Appeals have been made to the Council of State by the Municipality of Heraklion and the Municipality of Malevizio, who want a different route through the city of Heraklion and to a certain extent it makes sense,” said Nikos Tachiaos.
FlyOver: The project has taken a form which cannot be reversed
In a question about a publication of the newspaper “Avgi” in relation to the Eastern Regional, the well-known fly over, the deputy minister said that “we are talking about 82 acres in an area of several tens of thousands of acres of forest, an infinitesimal area that is to a very large extent characterized as a forest, but in practice it is the slopes of the ring road, which are not planted, have no trees.
It is true what Avgi says, said Nikos Tachiaos, talking about a larger area to be logged. The new AEPO has been sanctioned, which allows intervention in those sections that need to be occupied.
But the bottom line is that the temporary injunction was not won, which in my view was a Solomonic solution given by the Council of State to solve the fact that there were continuous writs being added to this trial and to which he had to keep answer the. Ministry of Environment.
So, while this temporary injunction was granted, a few days later, the trial took place. We await its outcome.
We respect his decisions Council of Statebut the construction site has taken a form which cannot be reversed”, he emphasized.
Regarding the reactions, the deputy minister stressed: “It saddens me that to a very large extent these reactions have political characteristics and unfortunately parties go and align with these views just because we are now in an election period.”
There is no way to do this project without restricting traffic on the ring road, but at the same time very serious measures have been taken within the city. Egnatia undertakes the operation of the regional. 13 million have been given to the municipality of Thessaloniki to carry out night collection. The Traffic has been reinforced.
These are very serious measures and any other measure needed will be taken,” he added.
Source: ERTnews
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