First leg of new Tirana ring road tendered

TIRANA, Aug. 14 – The General Roads Directorate has announced a tender for the construction of the first segment of Tirana’s new ring road. Government has placed a 1.6 billion lek price tag for the first lot of the ring road from the Komuna e Parisit to Rruga e Kavajes and a deadline of 24 months.
Bids are accepted electronically on the official website of the Public Procurement Agency until August 31. The Tirana Big Ring Road is being developed by the Municipality of Tirana to provide a by-pass route between the North and the South accesses to Tirana, thus avoiding congested streets in the city cent. The Tirana Outer Ring Road is a major component of the 1989 urban master plan for Tirana, which is still current. This master plan establishes proposals for the construction of inner, middle and outer ring roads. In the last two decades, these roads have been only partly built.