ArmInfo. The work on the construction of the Davidashen-Ashtarak bypass road, financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) under the second part of the Investment Program for Sustainable Urban Development, is drawing to a close. Earlier, the deadline was announced before the end of 2018.
As the press service of the capital administration told ArmInfo, the new road with uninterrupted traffic will have 6 lanes of 28 m wide and 5.4 km in length. The Davydashen administrative district of Yerevan will be connected to the western part of Achapnyak by the Ashtarak highway. There will be a direct connection between Chavush street - Ashtarak highway and Halabyan - Yeghvard highway, with no traffic lights. For this purpose, two-level transport interchanges will be built at the junction of Chavush-Ashtarak highway and Halabyan-Yeghvard highway. The construction includes a new metal bridge, 257 m long above the Hrazdan River and a 2,7 km long road with a 2-way traffic. The new road will be equipped with lighting at the level of world standards - LED lamps (LED). A completely ring road around Yerevan is planned to be built by 2020.
Within the framework of the "Investment Program for Sustainable Urban Development" - Tranche-2, construction of the Babajanyan-Ashtarak Highway bypass is also under way. A new road with uninterrupted traffic will have 6 lanes 24 m wide and 9.4 km long. The road will be equipped with an internationally conforming LED backlight.
The Parliament of Armenia in February 2017 ratified the loan agreement signed with the Asian Development Bank signed on October 13, 2015 with the amount of $ 112.97 million (Sustainable Urban Development Investment Program 2) for construction of bypass roads in Yerevan, allowing to unload the center of the capital. The loan was provided within the second part of the "Sustainable Urban Development Investment Program". The constructed routes will allow to unload the central streets of the capital, and also to connect the main routes with the standing corridor "North-South". The agreement is a continuation of the implementation of the stable development program, which is being implemented in the capital since 2011 and which is planned to be completed by 2020. Within the first tranche, the roads were planned to be modernized from the intersection of the Yerevan streets Arshakunyats-Bagratunyats to Noragavit, continuing to the Artashat highway and connecting to the North-South highway. The second tranche is planned, in particular, to extend the road from Noragavit to the intersection of Argavand-Shiraki streets, from there to Babadzhanyan streets in Malatia Sebastia, up to Ashtarak highway, and the third direction from Davitashensky bridge to Ashtarak highway.
