THE GOVERNMENT has undertaken a £2.4 million project to improve the quality of various roads across Cyprus.
The head of the Public Works Department, Stathis Hamboullas, yesterday signed three contracts for different roadworks to be completed over the next year.
Communications and Works Minister Averoff Neophytou said the agreements were for the maintenance of different roads in the Paphos area, the improvement of the Limassol to Platres road, running as a motorway as far as Monagri, and the addition of a lane to the Karvounas to Saittas road.
“We are continuing works to improve roads to ensure a better quality of life for Cypriots,” he said.
On October 15, the Ministry has promised to open the final stretch of the Limassol to Paphos motorway at Petra tou Romiou.
At the beginning of October, works will begin on the Dhekelia to Protaras road to upgrade it to a motorway.
By September of next year, the Ministry will be open to tenders for the improvement of the Paphos to Polis Chrysochous road and, by the end of 2002, for the continuation of the Troodos motorway from where it currently ends at Kokkinotrimithia as far as Astromeritis and Evrychou.
According to Neophytou, the ratio of roads compared to the size of the island means Cyprus has the best highways in Europe.
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