Minister Uraloğlu: 8.3 million drivers used the Eurasia Tunnel in 8 years

Minister of Shipping and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu introduced that 8.3 million drivers have used the Eurasia Tunnel 151 million occasions in 8 years.

Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu, in his written remark, reminded that they opened the Eurasia Tunnel with the participation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on December 20, 2016 and stated, “I·Eurasia Tunnel, which connects the Asian and Ecu aspects of Istanbul with a 5-kilometer double-decker undersea street tunnel. With the Tunnel’s top era, complicated engineering holistic venture and direction connecting the continents, Istanbul has been making fast, fast passage in the course of the Bosphorus for 8 years. “It serves as a cheap, secure, comfy and environmentally pleasant transportation selection,” he stated.

Minister Uraloğlu said that 8.3 million drivers used the Eurasia Tunnel 151 million occasions in 8 years, and within the calculations made making an allowance for the Kozyatağı-Bakırköy hall, 211 million hours of time, 261 thousand heaps of gasoline, 115 thousand heaps of emission aid and 590 million automobile/kilometer aid. He famous that 2 billion greenbacks had been contributed to the rustic’s economic system through saving cash.

‘JOURNEY BETWEEN ASIA AND EUROPE HAS BEEN REDUCED TO 5 MINUTES’

Minister Uraloğlu said that the transportation distances at the southern axis of Istanbul had been shortened through 10 kilometers with the Eurasia Tunnel, and that the adventure between the Asian and Ecu aspects has been lowered to five mins. Minister Uraloğlu stated, “The Eurasia Tunnel equipped its customers with a mean time financial savings of 36 mins within the morning and 41 mins within the night time in 2024. In 2024, 90 % of the cars the use of the Eurasia Tunnel might be automobiles, 6 % might be minibuses, and four % might be minibuses.” “It was once a bike,” he stated.

Minister Uraloğlu said that the assured selection of cars has been exceeded with a mean day-to-day visitors of 82 thousand cars within the Eurasia Tunnel. Uraloğlu said that within the tunnel, the primary street venture performed with the Public-Non-public Partnership (PPP) style, the place the earnings sharing style has began to be carried out, the assured visitors ranges had been exceeded within the closing quarter of 2023 and all through 2024, and earnings sharing has began with the general public. Declaring that the utmost selection of day-to-day unit cars in 2024 reached 94 thousand 459 on June 13 this yr, Minister Uraloğlu stated, “So far, a complete of two million 7 thousand 341 motorbike riders have handed in the course of the tunnel, the place we allowed the usage of bikes as of Might 1, 2022. 25 % of the tunnel customers “He used the Eurasia Tunnel in each instructions for day-to-day passages,” he stated.

‘SPP WORKS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED’

Minister Uraloğlu, who introduced that the solar energy plant (SPP) works with an annual manufacturing capability of 322 thousand 880 kWh within the operation and upkeep development and the Asian air flow and transformer constructions had been finished and commissioned throughout the framework of the Eurasia Tunnel’s leading edge standpoint on sustainability, stated: “546 panels, 5 inverters and 280 energy vegetation.” The electrical energy wishes of the Eurasia Tunnel information facilities might be met with the yearly manufacturing of the Sun Energy Plant, the place the optimizer is situated. On this means, the power will supply its power from blank resources. “It’s going to additionally toughen the aid of 210 heaps of carbon emissions yearly, which is similar to the planting of roughly 3,500 pine bushes,” he stated.