Paralimni motorway by 2000

THE NEW motorway linking Larnaca and Paralimni that has been in the planning process for five years, will take another two years to complete and will cost £40 million.

A meeting at the Presidential Palace yesterday morning presided by President Glafcos Clerides and attended by the Ministers of Finance, Interior and Communication and Works, by deputies from Famagusta, the mayors of Paralimni, Ayia Napa and Dherynia and representatives of the service sector, decided on a time-frame for the long-awaited road.

The road will be a dual-carriageway and will run from Pyla to Protaras.

Communication and Works Minister, Leontios Ierodiaconou, said after the meeting that “there were two main decisions made regarding the project. The first specifies that the construction of at least two lanes from Pyla, Xylotymbou and Ormidhia should be finished in time for summer next year and be in use by May 1999; the second calls for construction on all other sections to be then accelerated so that the entire project will be completed by May 2000.”

The minister added that the government would be in constant contact with the communities in the areas affected, so that any problems that arise can swiftly be solved.

Paralimni Mayor Nicos Littis, who has in the past called on the government to get on with the motorway construction, expressed satisfaction with the time-frame, stressing that the project was of vital importance for tourism and agricultural development in the area.

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