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Eskisehir-Ankara route, Istanbul-Antalya route and HIGHWAY EMPLOYEES
in summary East-West corridors and North-South HAVE BEEN AUTHORİZED
axes, has been put into service.
As 4 thousand 176 authorization certificates
A THIRD NECKLACE TO İSTANBUL had been issued for the ones who function/will
function in the context of Highway Transport
To reduce Istanbul traffic in which 20 thousand Regulation since the beginning of 2003, in 2012
new vehicles join every month, a third bridge is 487 thousand 640 authorization certificates were
under construction. With Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, issued. As a result of the regulations carried out
Istanbul’s two sides are being connected by both in this area, the sector has been recorded in the
highway and railway. This Project is becoming frame of financial and occupational competency.
even stronger by Turkey’s position of being the The rights and obligations of the suppliers and
main corridor of transportation and commerce served have been determined and the legal hole
between Asia and Europe. has been ended. Unutilized capacity has been
prevented by recording the inputs to the sector.
İZMİR IS BECOMING İSTANBUL’S The specialization of the sector workers and by this
NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR means institutionalization has been encouraged
and the quality of the service given to the citizens
Istanbul-Izmir Motorway, including the Izmit Gulf has been increased.
Passageway, which will make Istanbul – the World
city that meets 23 percent of the national income OCCUPATIONAL COMPETENCY
of Turkey itself, and produces 40 percent of it – and
Izmir next-door neighbors is being completed. Not With the Highway Transportation Activities
only Izmir will be connected to Istanbul with a wide Occupational Competency Training Regulation,
motorway with this Project that will be the world’s occupational competency training has become
5. biggest motorway, but also 18 cities will be obligatory for the business owners and drivers that
refreshed commercially and industrially. With the have operated in commercial transport activities
realization of this Project, the national economy without being subject to any trainings until 2003;
will save 870 million TL per year. After the Izmit and within the context of this regulation, 222
Gulf Passage Bridge is completed, the 2nd longest institutions have been authorized by the Ministry
bridge in the World after the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in to give occupational competency trainings until
Japan will be in Turkey. Izmit Gulf will be crossed in the end of 2012.
6 minutes instead of 1 hour. A Project equal to the
national incomes of 50 countries alone with the
investment price of 20 billion TL.

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