Ovitunnel
| Ovitunnel | ||||
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| Official name | Ovit Dağı Tüneli | |||
| use | Road tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | D 925 | |||
| place | Ovit in the Dogu Karadeniz Mountains | |||
| length | 14.346 km | |||
| Number of tubes | 2 | |||
| construction | ||||
| Client | TCK (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Karayolları Genel Müdürlüğü) | |||
| start of building | 2012 | |||
| completion | June 2018 | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| İkizdere | 40 ° 33 ′ 41 ″ N , 40 ° 46 ′ 11 ″ E | |||
| İspir | 40 ° 57 ′ 48 " N , 40 ° 27 ′ 54" E | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Ovittunnel ( Turkish Ovit Dağı Tüneli ) is a motorway tunnel on Mount Ovit between İkizdere in the province of Rize and İspir in Erzurum in northeastern Turkey . With a length of 14.3 km, the two tubes are the longest tunnel in the country.
The tunnel connects Erzurum with Rize to create a faster connection to the Black Sea in Eastern Anatolia . The previous connection between Erzurum and Rize will be shortened by the tunnel from 250 km to 200 km. The first plans for such a project existed as early as 1880 at the time of the Ottoman Empire , but nothing was realized. In 1930, however, a pass road was built over the Ovit with the use of 1500 workers, which connects İspir with İkizdere and leads to an altitude of 2600 m. However, this route (D 925) is often impassable in winter.
The start of construction work on the tunnel and its connecting roads was lavishly celebrated on May 12, 2012 in the presence of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan . Commissioning of the tunnel was planned for the beginning of 2016, but was now delayed until summer 2016 and then - until 2017 and the last one was officially inaugurated on June 13, 2018. Upon completion, the tunnel is expected to become the fifth longest road tunnel in the world .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Erdoğan'dan önemli açıklamalar (Turkish) . In: Hürriyet , May 12, 2012. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 13, 2010.
- ↑ a b Kaçar, Muhammet: Başbakan Ovit Dağı Tüneli'nin temelini attı (Turkish) . In: Hürriyet , May 13, 2012.
- ↑ a b Selcuk Kilic and Tugba Yardimci: Strategic Mt. Ovit Tunnel opens in north east Turkey (English) . In: Anadolu Agency , June 13, 2018.
- ↑ a b Başbakan Erdoğan konuştu (Turkish) . In: Sabah , May 13, 2012.
- ↑ Ovit Tüneli'nin temeli atıldı (Turkish) . In: Hürriyet , May 13, 2012.
- ↑ World's second largest tunnel to open in Turkey in 2016 (English)
- ↑ http://www.dailysabah.com/business/2016/07/08/ovit-tunnel-project-nears-completion
