EURASIA TUNNEL

Eurasia Tunnel, Marmaray(which was completed in 2013)'s sister, is the first road tunnel for automotive-transit access between the Asian and European sides of Istanbul under the Bosporus. It reduces the travel time between the two sides to 15 minutes and opened on Dec. 20, 2016 with a grand ceremony. Eurasia Tunnel, with a cost of $1.3 billion, will create a business volume of TL 1.5 Billion for the Turkish economy and save 52 million hours of time in traffic in the short run. The total length of the project is 14.6 kilometers and the most crucial part, the Bosporus crossing, is 5.4 kilometers long.