According to Total News, Jafar Shahamat, while referring to the province as a regional communication hub, said, according to published statistics, a vast and high-traffic province like Khorasan-Razavi ranks second in goods transit, with 111 kilometers of freeways and 1,139 kilometers in need of highway and freeway development. Khorasan Razavi Province has 2,700 kilometers of transit roads, but only 60% of these roads have been converted into highways and freeways, and from this point of view, Khorasan Razavi ranks 23rd in the country.
The Director General of highways and Road Transport of Khorasan Razavi considered the issue of safety on the roads of Khorasan province to be important and said, among the measures taken, identification, safety and elimination of 12 accident-prone points in the province’s axes and 17 sections prone to accidents have been taken.
He said about the other measures taken in this organization: construction of longitudinal lighting along 10 kilometers in the arterial axes of the province, construction of point lighting in 30 intersections and cross sections of the province, completion of middle New Jersey of Shahid Shushtri freeway with a length of 20 kilometers and implementation of 30 Kilometer protection in other parts of the province was one of our other actions this year.
Shahamat considered the courage to increase the traffic of the fleet including incoming, outgoing and export-import transit from a total of 4 active border terminals during the current quarter and added, the traffic of the incoming and outgoing transit fleet from the common borders with Turkmenistan to the countries of Central Asia in the first quarter of this year has been growing compared to last year.
The Director General of highways and Road Transport of Khorasan Razavi said about the actions taken by this department in the direction of culture building, informing and promoting citizenship rights in the field of highways and road transport, in order to raise the level of people’s knowledge, measures have been taken that can be department’s communication with the media and news agencies, participating in the Wednesday talk show on Khorasan Razavi Radio, producing motion graphics, publishing short clips in cyberspace, informing through road billboards and advertising in passenger and cargo terminals among the measures taken in this area.