Makeover for Strovolos Avenue

THE GOVERNMENT yesterday committed itself to financing the majority of a £3 million project to improve Strovolos Avenue in Nicosia.

Road works will begin this month and cover four lanes over a total stretch of 1.85 kilometres in the next 17 months, between Demos Hypermarket and the Spyros Kyprianou Avenue overpass.
The works will also cover the improvement of 0.9 kilometres of a few of the Avenue’s side streets.
The contract was signed at the Communication Ministry, with the government committed to paying 80 per cent of the £3,029,000 town planning department project and Strovolos Municipality footing the remaining costs.

The project includes, among other things constructing tarmac, pavements, a central dividing barrier, parking spaces along the Avenue, sewerage and rainwater drainage systems, horizontal and vertical signposting and modern lighting systems.

The contract was signed by Public Works department head, Efstathios Hamboullas and by the manager of the contracting company which under took the project, Cybarco Ltd, in the president of Communication and Works Minister Harris Thrasou.

Thrasou said the completion of the project would meet today’s traffic demands and help improve congestion.

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