REPUBLIC OF TURKEY
MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT, MARITIME AFFAIRS AND COMMUNICATIONS
GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF HIGHWAYS
ICA – ICTAS
CONSTRUCTION WORKS ON PASAKOY-HUSEYINLI-KOMURLUK ROUTE ON ASIAN SIDE OF NORTH MARMARA MOTORWAY
CONTRACT VALUE: 57.495.000 TL
TRAIL-BLAZING BRIDGE
The construction of the 3rd bridge over Bosphorus, which is considered as the future of the transportation and trade, is within the North Marmara Motorway Project to be carried out by IC Ictas– Astaldi JV.
3rd Bosphorus Bridge
An 8-lane highway and a 2-track railway line pass through the 3rd Bosporus Bridge, which will be constructed by a team mainly composed of Turkish engineers, and will provide great engineering and state-of-art work.
3rd Bosporus Bridge, which will be the Trail-Blazing Bridge, has become the broadest and longest suspension bridge of the world with a width of 59 meters and a main span of 1408 meters and a rail system on it. Another unique aspect attributed to the bridge is that it is a suspension bridge, which has the highest tower over 322 meters.
NORTH MARMARA MOTORWAY
115 km of the North Marmara Motorway with 19 junctions and connection roads is included within the scope of Odayeri – Pasakoy section of the project.
Odayeri-Pasakoy section of this motorway project was tendered on 20.04.2012 with Build-Operate-Transfer model in order to reduce the traffic load of the existing 1st and 2nd Bosporus Bridges and solve the transportation problem of Istanbul and completed within 2016.
Within the scope of motorway project including 3rd Bosporus Bridge, Tur Insaat has successfully completed excavation on all types and classes of ground, cutting and side borrow-cutting on all types and classes of ground and utilisation, blasting, loading, transportation and laying, compression works.