Sabuncubeli Tunnel

The Sabuncubeli Tunnel (Sabuncubeli Tüneli) is a road tunnel located on the Mount Sipylus (Spil Dağı) in Aegean Region as part of the Manisa–İzmir highway D.565 E881 in Turkey. Situated near Karakoca village in the northeast and Beşyol village of Bornova district in the southwest on the province border of Manisa and İzmir, the twin-tube tunnel is 4,070 m (13, 350 ft) long carrying two lanes of traffic in each direction. In 2011, the Manisa–İzmir route had a daily traffic rate of 30,000 vehicles. The tunnel is being built to bypass the steep and twisty route at Sabuncubeli Pass, reducing the grade of highway from 7–8% to 1.5%. When completed, it will shorten the travel time between Manisa and İzmir from 45 minutes to 15 minutes, and will contribute to elimination of traffic congestion in the winter time. The contract for the building of the tunnel was awarded to Koçoğlu and Makimsan Consortium on the build-operate-transfer basis, and was signed on August 18, 2011. It was projected that the 2,800 m (9, 200 ft)-long tunnel was to be finished within three years costing ₺110 million. The groundbreaking ceremony took place in presence of Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication Binali Yıldırım on September 9, 2011. The construction works were suspended for seven months right after the groundbreaking in order to undertake a revision in the tunnel project. Th

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