BAKU, Azerbaijan, Sept.1
By Tamilla Mammadova – Trend:
After the construction of 96 bridges and 53 tunnels will be completed on the Rikoti Pass the travel time from Tbilisi to Batumi will be just three hours by 2024, said Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, Trend reports via Georgian media.
As he noted, currently the trip takes between five-six hours.
He called the construction of a 388-kilometer highway connecting the Red Bridge (a crossing point between Georgia and Azerbaijan on the Tbilisi-Ganja road) and Sarpi (located in the southwest of Georgia on the border with Turkey) the project of the century, part of which is the Rikoti Pass.
"The projects of such scale and complexity have not been implemented in the country. This is a truly outstanding project across Europe, costing more than 2 billion lari ($645 million) and the project will be fully completed in 2024. This section is important because it is an integral part of the east-west highway which starts from Brest (a city in the southwestern part of Belarus) and ends at the Chinese border,” said Garibashvili.
Construction work is underway on the Ubisa-Shorapani section of the Rikoti Pass.
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