TRAFFIC CHAOS DUE TO ROAD WORKS IN KONIA - Filenews 11/3 by Dora Christodoulou
The works carried out on the main avenue leading from the Paphos-Limassol motorway roundabout to the community of Konia, have caused an unprecedented inconvenience and traffic jams at all hours of the day. From the junction of the EAC traffic lights to the entrance of the motorway to Limassol, the main avenue and the roads leading to it or to the traffic junction, present an unprecedented image for Paphos, with kilometer-long queues of cars moving at a snail's pace, even at times of the day that are not considered peak.
This problem, which appeared with the start of the works in Konia in the last month or so, comes to maximize the already increased problem of traffic at the exit of the city to the Paphos-Limassol highway or to the area of the Paphos Hospital. At the roundabouts of Konia and Paphos Hospital, the situation is even characterized as dangerous, since the flow of vehicles is done in a way that makes the phenomenon of road collisions very frequent, while the traffic congestion, especially in that of Konia, is unprecedented for Paphian data.
Police crews were all day from early in the morning at these key points of the road network trying to ease the situation, however the delays, queues and minor accidents recorded are now part of the daily life of Paphos.
Both the daily picture on most of the main roads of Paphos and the suburban area, as well as the almost daily serious or less serious road accidents, push the Police, the municipal authority and the Traffic Studies Agency to get more involved in the problem. Although the situation in Paphos is still far from the one experienced by the residents of Nicosia and Limassol, the deterioration of the situation in the city of Aphrodite is also a cause for concern, given that traffic until recently was an issue that did not particularly concern the authorities and the public, with Paphos being the city that appeared with the comparative advantage of ease of movement of citizens in any direction within the city.
Today, however, with the increase in population and commercial activities in Paphos, but also with the negative effects that the large-scale regeneration of recent years in areas of the city has had on the road network, the problem has grown to an alarming degree, competent bodies acknowledge. They point out that in specific parts of the urban road network, the existing road network cannot essentially support traffic traffic, no matter how many individual interventions are made.
