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Construction of the Antalya–Alanya motorway has passed the one-third mark. Turkey's Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Abdulkadir Uraloğlu, announced that physical progress on the project has reached 30 per cent. The route is designed at 122 kilometres: 84 of them make up the main carriageway with three lanes in each direction, and another 38 are connecting roads. The alignment runs from the Serik junction to the Alanya West junction, which comes out north of Konaklı.
Behind the percentage lies concrete detail. Support work is finished in two tunnels, where final concreting is now under way; excavation continues in the remaining three. Of the sixteen viaducts, work is running on fifteen — pile driving, foundation excavation, reinforcement and concrete. In total the project includes five tunnels measuring 4,365 metres and viaducts of almost six kilometres, plus 14 underpasses, 5 overpasses, six bridges and 47 culverts. There are seven junctions: Serik, Taşağıl, Manavgat, Manavgat East, Alarahan, Konaklı and Alanya West.
Once the road opens, the trip from Antalya to Alanya will take 36 minutes instead of the current two and a half hours. The ministry puts the annual effect at 23.9 billion lira: 23 billion from time saved and another 900 million from fuel, with emissions down by 47,000 tonnes a year. For the housing market, the geography of the junctions is what counts: Konaklı and Alanya West sit right beside the western districts where most of today's construction is happening. The drive from Antalya airport will stop being a half-day affair — and with it the seasonality of rentals will shift, as will the pool of buyers for whom Alanya used to be simply too far.
