TEMPORARY BYPASS ROAD BEING CONSTRUCTED TO REPLACE DESTROYED SECTION OF INTERSTATE MOTORWAY YEREVAN -SEVAN -IJEVAN - GEORGIAN BORDER
NOYAN TAPAN
APRIL 20, 2010
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, APRIL 20, NOYAN TAPAN. A temporary bypass road is being
constructed to replace a destroyed section of the interstate motorway
Yerevan - Sevan - Ijevan - Georgian border. The indicated section
was destroyed by a landslide. The construction work is being done
by Amarasshin company with the use of European technologies and will
be completed in two weeks. NT correspondent was informed by Susanna
Tonoyan, spokeswoman for the RA minister of transport and communication
that the design for a new main road has been completed, with 4 versions
being proposed. After selection of one of them, the construction of
the main road will start and be implemented within a year.
It was also mentioned that a section located at 34 km of the
motorway Yerevan - Vanadzor - Alaverdi - Georgian border has been
made impassable as a result of spring floods of the Debed River.
Reconstruction work of that section will also be done after the
flood ends.
In addition to the indicated road sections, another four have been
badly damaged: two sections of the Goris motorway and Gyumri-Amasia
and Martuni-Vardenis sections.
NOYAN TAPAN
APRIL 20, 2010
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, APRIL 20, NOYAN TAPAN. A temporary bypass road is being
constructed to replace a destroyed section of the interstate motorway
Yerevan - Sevan - Ijevan - Georgian border. The indicated section
was destroyed by a landslide. The construction work is being done
by Amarasshin company with the use of European technologies and will
be completed in two weeks. NT correspondent was informed by Susanna
Tonoyan, spokeswoman for the RA minister of transport and communication
that the design for a new main road has been completed, with 4 versions
being proposed. After selection of one of them, the construction of
the main road will start and be implemented within a year.
It was also mentioned that a section located at 34 km of the
motorway Yerevan - Vanadzor - Alaverdi - Georgian border has been
made impassable as a result of spring floods of the Debed River.
Reconstruction work of that section will also be done after the
flood ends.
In addition to the indicated road sections, another four have been
badly damaged: two sections of the Goris motorway and Gyumri-Amasia
and Martuni-Vardenis sections.