Country: | TUR |
Type: | otoyol |
Route: | 33 |
Alternate Name: | Northern Aegean Motorway Kuzey Ege Otoyolu |
Established: | 2019 |
Direction A: | South |
Terminus A: | in Çiğli, İzmir |
Direction B: | North |
Terminus B: | Bergama |
Length Km: | 55.2 |
Regions: | Aegean |
Provinces: | İzmir |
Previous Type: | O |
Previous Route: | 32 |
Next Type: | O |
Next Route: | 51 |
Otoyol 33, O-33 or North Aegean Motorway (Turkish: Kuzey Ege Otoyolu) and abbreviated as the O-33 is a 55.2km (34.3miles) long toll motorway in western Turkey.Beginning at an intersection with İzmir Beltway, the O-33 runs north from Çiğli to Bergama and parallels the D550 for most of its route.[1]
On 15 February 2017 the tender to construct the motorway was awarded to a consortium of three companies, IC İçdaş, Kalyon and Astaldi. Like other otoyol projects in Turkey, the tender was awarded under a build-operate-transfer contract until 2027.[2] Groundbreaking for the highway took place on 5 April 2017 in a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım and Minister of Transport Ahmet Arslan. The 408.2 million motorway was opened to traffic on 30 October 2019.[3] [4]
The designation O-33 had previously been used for the Bursa Beltway, now designated as a part of the O-5 and O-22.