2024-05-05 16:49:08
A ring road without intersections with traffic regulation with traffic lights will be used by drivers in the coming years, as the decision of the Region of Epirus to proceed with a series of roundabouts appears to have been made.
The beginning has already been made with the roundabout under construction at the point where it meets the old Ioannina – Igoumenitsa National Highway, before the tunnel to the airport, while the procedures for roundabouts at the beginning and at the end of the road have been launched, with the junction at It is pan-continental to have a contractor and it is his turn to pick up at the airport. As Epirus regional governor Alexandros Kahrimanis announced in his statements, the construction of roundabouts will soon be studied at four more points of the ring road, at the height of Kardamitsia, Stavraki, Kato Marmara and Neochoropoulos.
“Little by little we will carry out studies for this whole area, so that the section from the Avgo junction to the Lapsista junction, through Niarchou Street and the ring road, will be a single section”, he said, announcing the study of another roundabout in National Highway of Ioannina – Artas, at the height of Praktiker, to channel the traffic to Niarchou Street and relieve the traffic in Panepirotiko, where concerns have been expressed as to whether the roundabout will serve the drivers or make the situation more difficult.
These reports of Mr. Kahrimanis were made on the basis of a protest from the residents of Kryfovos, who state that for years they have been asking for a junction at the height of their village in E.O. Ioannina – Artas, with the Region not responding, contrary to the request of residents of the Episcopal recently.
The regional governor explained that the section after the Avgo junction is out of heavy traffic and, based on traffic load measurements, is not a priority. In contrast to the section of E.O. from the junction of Avgos – Servianon to Pedini, which has a huge traffic due to the existence of many businesses and is treated as a semi-urban area.
He reminded, however, that at the intersection to Kryfovo there has been an intervention by the Region with electric lighting, just like earlier at the intersection to Avgo, leaving open the possibility of a new intervention in the future. “We will see them soon, as we saw other nodes in Vasiliki,” he said.