Inaugurating the new Aktio-Amvrakia motorway during a visit to Western Greece on Wednesday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that the year 2024 will be notable, not for the start but for the completion of projects that have been under construction for some time, ANA reports.
“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 tenders so that we reached the point today of delivering an ultramodern highway of nearly 50 km in good time,” Mitsotakis noted.
He pointed out that the new road, which was wider and safer than its predecessor, reduced traveling times to the island of Lefkada and Preveza by some 45 minutes and “opens up entirely new developmental prospects for a region of Greece that to a large extent remained unexploited.”
He especially highlighted the greater safety of the new highway, referring to the loss of lives due to dangerous roads and the huge improvements in road safety when new highways are opened, saying the government emphasized the completion of infrastructure projects that had been delayed for decades.
Among these, he listed the section of the E65 highway from Lamia to Kalambaka, due in May, the Thessaloniki metro in November, and the Patras-Pyrgos motorway, due to be delivered in 2025.
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