Thessaloniki: The contract for the intellect of Agios Dimitrios was signed
The mayor of Thessaloniki spoke about an important project, which helps both to improve traffic and the development of the wider area
It should start immediately opening project her Agios Dimitriou streetas today o Mayor Konstantinos Zervas signed the contract for his assignment in his presence Deputy Mayor of Technical Projects and Sustainable Mobility Efraim Kyrizidis and his technical advisor of Dimitris Mitrou.
With a budget of 670,000 euros, it concerns the development of Agios Dimitrios in its section from Katsimidis to Milos and the implementation – parallel to the road construction works – of electrical lighting and greening interventions. Even the installation of light signaling at the junctions of Agios Dimitrios with Katsimidis as well as with Lambraki.
For an important project, which will give traffic breathers to thousands of drivers and will help the development of the wider region, said the Mayor of Thessaloniki Konstantinos Zervas, noting that the procedures for this major intervention were completed in record time. As he characteristically mentioned, this very important junction for the city, where the end of the exit from the ring road – Katsimidis Street – is connected with Agios Dimitriou but also with Triandria and Toumpa, for decades resembled a corpse. “We envisioned, designed, expropriated, demolished, studied, sourced, auctioned and today we are building. In record time. A project, which Thessaloniki saw as haunted for decades, was built within three years”, emphasized Mr. Zervas.
According to Deputy Mayor of Technical Projects and Sustainable Mobility Efraim Kyrizidis, the idea of Agios Dimitrios in the section from Katsimidis to Milos will give a huge traffic boost both in the area of Triandria and Toumpa and more broadly in eastern Thessaloniki. “We are very happy, because two years ago we started something that seemed impossible, a project that no one has touched in the last decades in the city”, underlined Mr. Kyrizidis, noting that with this intervention the whole image of the region is radically changing.
For his part, his technical advisor Mayor Dimitris Mitrou he spoke about a project that changes traffic data, while he announced the start of a major project for the intellect of Psellou Street.