2019 start for new Paphos-Polis road

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The 2019 budget includes €7 m to pay for the start of work of the first phase of the new Paphos-Polis Chrysochous road, Phileleftheros reported today.

The first phase covers a 15.5 km two lane stretch from Ayia Marinouda to Stroumbi.

This section includes a multi-level junction where it joins up with Limassol-Paphos highway near Ayia Marinouda, two tunnels of 730 and 290 metres, two overpasses and nine underpasses. The total cost is estimated at €60m plus VAT.

The environmental impact study has been completed and has been submitted to the Environmental Authority, while the tender documents have been drafted.

The contract is expected to take three to four years, with work expected to start in mid-2019. Remaining compulsory purchases are expected to cost €15.5m.

The section will link up with the existing road after Stroumbi. The whole project will be completed with construction at a later stage of the 15 km stretch from there to Polis.

In parallel, improvement work is underway on the existing Paphos-Polis road. These started last summer and are expected to be completed in June, 2019 at a cost of €903,000 plus.

Another €2.2m is being budgeted for the second phase of improvement work that will start in autumn 2019 and will take a year to complete.


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Paphos-Polis highway to be completed by 2021


The highway that will connect Paphos with Polis is in the works, Phileleftheros reported on Monday.

The two-lane highway will start from the existing Limassol-Paphos (A6) highway in Agia Marinouda and will pass through the villages of Marathounta, Armou, Tsada, Kallepia, Koili and Stroumpi.

It will have two tunnels and five viaducts.

The speed limit will be 100km/h.

Construction for the highway (initially meant to be a four-lane highway) was planned to start around five years ago but the financial crisis brought the process to a halt.

In fact, the government completed all related land expropriations since 2006 and started receiving construction offers in 2007.

However, in 2012 the it recalled all land-expropriations, for which it hadn’t already compensated the owners.

The aim is for construction to start as soon as possible and for the whole project to be completed by 2021.

Construction will cost up to €60 million and further expropriations will cost €34 million.

Also, the state has already paid €58,5 million for properties that remain expropriated.

How will the highway affect wildlife?

Studies on the environmental impact of the highway have already been completed.

Two Natura 2000 and other government-protected sites are near the areas it will pass through, the studies found.

Also, 162 plant species (12 of them endemic to Cyprus), hares, foxes, rats, mice, hedgehogs, 15 lizards (one of them classified as “endangered” by IUCN), three amphibian 175 bird and 11 bat species (one “near endangered”), as well as a species of eel which is classified as “critically endangered,” currently live either near or inside the areas that will be used for the highway.


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