Longest tunnel in Greece opens
The 4.8 kilometers long road tunnel will open for traffic in April 2008.
The two-way tunnel at Driskos (Egnatia Motorway’s) that took seven years to complete, cuts through Mount Mitsikeli linking the Ioannina plateau with the Arachthos River valley.
Meanwhile the larger (9 kilometers long) road tunnels in the Tempi Valley, central Greece, are expected to be ready five years after their construction also gets underway.
A total of 76 two-way road tunnels have been constructed within the framework of the Egnatia Motorway network, most of them along the Igumenitsa-Veria section.