Early Monday morning vehicular site visitors was restored in all site visitors lanes of the New Athens-Corinth Nationwide Freewayon the department to Corinth, after the incident of the hearth of the tanker that happened on the night of Friday, June 7, 2024, on a bridge of the Outdated Nationwide Street within the space of the Isthmus of Corinth.
The Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Christos Staikouras on the event of the restoration of site visitors, he stated: “Inside about two days of the harmful incident of the hearth of the tanker, the general public and the personal sector cooperated successfully in order that the required works can proceed shortly and the New Nationwide Freeway may be handed over to the residents. With continuous work, day and night time, the a part of the bridge that had suffered intensive injury from the thermal load was eliminated and the highway floor was restored within the half the place the work was carried out.
Subsequent step is the examine and reconstruction of the bridge that was destroyed, taking into consideration the most effective technical options, the price range, but in addition the implementation schedule. Our goal is to implement the undertaking within the coming months, whereas within the meantime alternative routes of crossing might be sought in an effort to facilitate the residents of the realm”.
Then again, the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, answerable for Infrastructure, Nikos Tachiaos stated:
The providers of the Normal Secretariat of Public Works of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport in collaboration with two of the businesses that take part within the building scheme that helps the concession firm “OLYMPIA ODOS”, “AKTOR” and “AVAX”, succeeded in assembly the urgent necessities of the undertaking of restoring site visitors on the nationwide highway, which was not at all a straightforward job. I want to thank my colleagues within the ministry and each firms for his or her velocity and professionalism. Most of all, although, I would wish to thank everybody who suffered throughout their commutes this sizzling weekend, the day-trippers and voters who stayed of their automobiles for a very long time, for his or her understanding in coping with an occasion that nobody may have predicted or to forestall.
The wager is now twofold: first, to make sure the motion, for free of charge to themselves, of all those that till now used the part of the Outdated Nationwide Street, which can stay blocked for a number of months. Secondly, to compress this time, to construct as quickly as doable the brand new bridge, to switch the one we have been compelled to demolish, as a result of irreparable damages that we recognized from the primary second, with out even disrupting the site visitors on the nationwide freeway. We’ll win this too! We have now already began working.”
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