So far we have given € 121 million for a 31 km road that was never done. The four-lane highway Paphos - Polis. The studies were completed in 1999 and estimated a cost of € 124,7m. Its construction was decided in 2000, it has not been built and it is not known when and how it will be built, but it already cost the state € 121,8 million. Then junctions, valley bridges, tunnels, etc. were added and the cost was calculated - with prices 2005 - at € 256,3m. noted in the Audit Office Report.
A tender was announced in 2006, canceled, re-announced in 2007 and ended abruptly in 2011.
Then it was decided to reduce the construction cost of the project, with two instead of four lanes, in two phases, with a total cost of € 185 million (more than the total cost of the project with 4 lanes in 2000). For the plans so far that were thrown in the basket, the Department of Public Works paid the consultants € 1.3 million.
But € 120.5 million concerns the expropriations. € 58,5 million were paid while € 62,0 million were still owed - debts for which the well-known state reserves were made with the Court Decisions for seizures of state vehicles.
As indicated in the Chrystalla Giorkatzi Report, the economy, the Troika and the Memorandum have changed things. Thus, "at this stage, the start of the implementation of the project is not possible", he states in the Report of the Audit Service that was published yesterday.
And the perimeter of Nicosia "started" in 2000. First, they changed the routes like Hotzia's oven. Then they gave the consulting researchers so far € 2,4 million for the study that was to be completed in 2009, but they were officially approved not 5, not 10 but a total of 260 weeks delay in the delivery of the study. Excuse, the changes made to the plans by the stakeholders.
The cost of the project is estimated at € 390 million. EU co-financing is sought. and the promotion of the implementation of the project is expected if the study is not delayed any more, if the expropriations are made, if money is found, in 2016 according to the Report of Chrystalla Giorkatzi.
Source: FILELEFTHEROS