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President Erdo?an held the Official Opening Ceremony of the Ayd?n-Denizli Highway. President Erdo?an said, “Our Ayd?n-Denizli Highway is 163 kilometers long. We will save a total of 7.4 billion liras annually, including 6.4 billion liras in time and 1 billion liras in fuel.” Speaking at the ceremony, Minister Uralo?lu stated that the highway would be a lifeline for the regional economy.
The Official Opening Ceremony of the Ayd?n-Denizli Highway was held with the presence of President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and the participation of Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uralo?lu. Speaking at the ceremony, President Erdo?an said, “We continue to grow and develop both Ayd?n and the region, and carry them to further points in every field. Diversifying the highway connections between our provinces and reducing travel times are among our top priorities.”
“Our Ayd?n-Denizli Highway is 163 Kilometers Long in Total”
President Erdo?an noted that they had significantly strengthened the transportation infrastructure of the region, which is one of the main routes for commercial and touristic traffic, with the Istanbul-Izmir Highway and the Izmir-Ayd?n Highway, which they had previously put into service, and continued his words as follows:
“With the Ayd?n-Denizli Highway, which we officially opened today, we are expanding our highway network between the Aegean, Mediterranean and Central Anatolia regions. Our Ayd?n-Denizli Highway, which consists of 140 kilometers of 6-lane main road with 3 lanes in both directions and 23 kilometers of connection road with 4 lanes in both directions, is 163 kilometers in length. The highway includes 61 bridges with a length of 5,712 meters, 19 interchanges, 18 viaducts with a total length of 11,622 meters, 30 overpasses, 80 underpasses and 5 highway service facilities.”
“We are officially offering all sections of the highway for the benefit of Aydin and the entire Aegean region”
Reminding that they opened the 93-kilometer section of the highway between Kuyucak Junction and Kocaba? Junction on November 3, 2023, Erdo?an said, “We put the 70-kilometer section starting from Ayd?n Ring Road and ending at Kuyucak Junction into service on October 17, 2024. The first stage of the highway route, which was opened to traffic on November 3, 2023, started from Kocaba?, passed through Pamukkale, Kumk?s?k, Sarayköy and Buharkent, and reached Kuyucak. The second stage, which was opened on October 17, started from Kuyucak, passed through Nazilli, Yenipazar and Kö?k districts, and ended in Ayd?n. Now, we are officially offering all sections of the highway to the benefit of Ayd?n and the entire Aegean Region.”
“We Will Save a Total of 7.4 Billion Liras Annually”
Erdo?an stated that the travel time, which used to be around 2 hours via 11 districts via the D-320 State Highway, has been reduced to less than an hour with the opening of the highway. Erdo?an stated that the 220-kilometer highway crossing time between the Denizli Western Beltway Junction and the ?zmir Center Port Junction has been reduced to one hour and 40 minutes, and included the following statements in his statement:
“The transportation time from Ayd?n to Denizli and from ?zmir to Denizli via the State Road will be equal to each other. Thus, we will save 7.4 billion liras in total annually, 6.4 billion liras in time and 1 billion liras in fuel. We will have reduced carbon emissions by 61 thousand tons. With the completion of the project, we are proud to have implemented an uninterrupted highway network starting from Kap?kule, passing through Istanbul, passing through the Marmara and Aegean regions and reaching the Mediterranean.”
The Road is Civilization
Recalling the saying “Road means civilization”, Erdo?an said, “Road means transportation, industry, production, tourism, culture, safety, development. Road means integration with the regional and global economy. None of these would be possible without a road. The same applies to the Ayd?n-Denizli highway.”
It Will Create New Employment Opportunities
Erdo?an stated that with the opening of the Ayd?n-Denizli Highway, industrial and agricultural products will be transported to ?zmir and Alia?a Port, the most important export center of the region, via Denizli in a much shorter time, and said, “Transportation to our tourism centers such as Pamukkale, Ephesus, Didim, Ku?adas?, which are especially crowded in the summer months, will be provided in a shorter time and in a more comfortable way. It will allow local and foreign visitors to spend more time in our touristic resorts and discover different places. This will also increase our tourism revenues.”
Stating that the Ayd?n-Denizli Highway will increase investments in the region in the tourism sector and lead to the opening of new tourism facilities, Erdo?an said, “Thus, it will create new employment opportunities and develop the regional economy. In short, we are opening a truly historic project in terms of trade, tourism, transportation and industry here today.”
“We have been working to grow and develop Turkey for 22 years”
Responding to criticisms of transportation investments, Erdo?an continued his words as follows:
“I have two words for those who criticize our transportation investments. There is not only a difference in vision and horizon between you and us. There is a difference in intention, understanding and mentality between you and us. We are not a team that thinks of ‘tower’ as ‘money tower’ and ‘municipality’ as ‘food’. We never have been. We have been working to grow and develop Turkey for 22 years. We have only one goal in politics; and that is to bring our country and cities together with the investments they deserve, as is the case here today.” Erdo?an, who stated that they have made the greatest breakthroughs in history in the field of transportation, said, “We increased our total divided road length to 29,730 kilometers.
