Status Operational | Work begun 1997 | |
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Opened April 7, 2007; 9 years ago (2007-04-07) Operator | ||
Asarkayası Tunnel (Turkish: Asarkayası Tüneli), is a highway tunnel constructed in Ordu Province, northern Turkey.
Asarkayası Tunnel is part of the Samsun-Ordu Highway within the Black Sea Coastal Highway, of which construction was carried out by the Turkish Nurol-Tekfen-Yüksel joint venture. The 310 and 314 m (1,017 and 1,030 ft)-long twin-tube tunnel carrying two lanes of traffic in each direction. The Ordu Nefise Akçelik Tunnel follows the Asarkayası Tunnel in direction Samsun.
The tunnel was opened to traffic on April 7, 2007 by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Dangerous goods carriers are not permitted to use the tunnel.
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