Road works will be interrupted for summer season, Limassol authorities assure

By a Staff Reporter

THE LIMASSOL Public Works Department (PWD) assured yesterday that works to improve the sea front would not cause problems in the upcoming tourist period.

PWD official Savvas Vrahimis said work on the project around the old Limassol port would be interrupted to avoid tourist inconvenience.

“There are two contracts right now,” he told the Cyprus Mail.

“One project starts from the Holiday Inn hotel and ends at the flyover and it is almost completed. The northern traffic lanes are already open. The two northern lanes will be open to traffic before Easter.

The other contract starts from the flyover and ends in the old port area.

Vrahimis brushed aside suggestions that the works would result in complaints from tourists, saying that all the necessary measures had been taken to avoid any inconvenience.

“The project around the old port is divided in two phases in order to avoid problems during the tourist period,” he said.

“All our projects on the sea front are interrupted during the tourist period. The project is going well. We were set back a little bit by the rainfall we had this year but the bulk of the works has been completed.”

Vrahimis said the works were due to finish in May 2004. The cost of the first contract is expected to amount to a little more than £3 million.

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