Temporary solution found for access to Thumanë-Kashar highway after protests

Temporary solution found for access to Thumanë-Kashar highway after protests

After more than two months of on and off protests from residents and businesses living near the recently completed Thumanë-Kashar highway, Albania’s Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy (MIE) has introduced a temporary solution. A provisional ramp will now allow residents to access the highway via one of the road’s overpasses.

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The residents had been protesting because the two current highway entry points are too far from the populated areas of Fushë-Krujë and Krujë. They have been demanding a new access point closer to Fushë-Krujë; a call that the MIE had been resisting because the standards of the highway do not allow for a multitude of entry and exit points and because the next segment of the highway will contain a third entry point that will service the areas in question. In announcing that a temporary solution had been agreed, MIE also made it known that the Government was in the final stages of signing the contract for the construction of the next segment that will link Thumanë to Milot.

The Thumanë-Kashar highway is part of the Adriatic-Ionian Corridor, also known as the Blue Corridor, which is a key segment of the larger Mediterranean Corridor spanning 1,560 kilometers.


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