The Albanian Road Authority announced on Tuesday the opening of tender procedures for one of the most discussed infrastructure projects known as the Tirana Bypass road.

The procedures in the Public Procurement Agency system include two lots of this project, specifically “Construction of Kashar-Vaqarr Junction Road Phase I” with a limit fund of Lek 3.3 billion or Euro 33 million and “Construction of Kashar-Vaqarr Junction Road Phase II” with a limit fund of Lek 2.7 billion or Euro 27 million.

The road is expected to be 21 kilometers long with a speed limit of 120 km/hour but in some sections with limitations of 80 km/hour or 90 km/hour. The total bypass road project has two main segments: Kashar-Vaqarr and Vaqarr-Mullet.

The starting point of the Tirana Ring Road (bypass) in the Kashar area is around 500 meters south of the existing “Tirana–Durrës” highway SH2. This point coincides with the exit of the new Thumana–Kashar highway junction, which in the approved detailed project in 2017 presents a different intersection angle with the existing Tirana–Durrës highway, which was not foreseen in the preliminary project of the Tirana Ring Road in 2014. Such a change has required the realignment of the Tirana Ring Road by moving it to the west.