Inaugurating the new Aktio-Amvrakia highway during a visit to western Greece on Wednesday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the year 2024 would be notable, not for the start but for the completion of projects that have been under construction for some time. time, reports the ANA. .
“Those of you who live here are well aware of the painful history of the Amvrakia road and you also know how systematically our government fought to unblock this project through new calls for tenders, so that today we have managed to deliver an ultra-modern highway of almost 50 km. on time,” noted Mitsotakis.
He stressed that the new road, wider and safer than the previous one, reduced travel times to the island of Lefkada and Preveza by around 45 minutes and “opened up entirely new development prospects for a region of Greece that , to a large extent, remained unexploited.”
He particularly highlighted the greater safety of the new highway, referring to the loss of life due to dangerous roads and the huge improvements in road safety when new highways are opened, saying the government was emphasizing the completion of infrastructure projects that had been delayed for decades.
Among these, he cited the section of the E65 highway from Lamia to Kalambaka, scheduled for May, the Thessaloniki metro in November and the Patras-Pyrgos highway, scheduled for delivery in 2025.
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