General Directorate of Highways

The General Directorate of Highways (KGM) has announced the increased bridge and highway toll prices that will be valid in the new year.

The tolls for highways and bridges have been increased, the General Directorate of Highways (KGM) has announced.

After a brief period of sunshine and warm weather, the temperature in the northern and central parts of the country is likely to decline again starting April 26, with particularly western provinces of Türkiye to witness a sharp temperature drop, the Turkish State Meteorology Service has announced.

Precipitation will continue to stay in effect throughout the week in the country.

With the decrease in temperatures expected throughout the country, the Turkish State Meteorological Services has issued a nationwide warning for strong winds and precipitation predicted for the coming days.

The General Directorate of Highways (KGM) has announced that tolls for roads operated by the authority and Istanbul's July 15 Martyrs' Bridge and Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge have been hiked by 20 percent effectively on Oct. 7.

Turkey received 271.7 million Turkish Liras (nearly $72 million) in tolls in the first two months of 2018, the Turkish General Directorate of Highways (KGM) revealed on March 26.

The rise in cost of bridge tolls over Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait is set to lighten Turks' wallets in the New Year, with the government imposing price hikes from Jan. 1.

The government increased tolls for the first two bridges over the Bosphorus Strait by 47 percent, while it made an average 20 percent hike in highway crossing tolls. 

The Turkish state earned 356 million Turkish Liras ($133 million) from the tolls it collects on two bridges over the Bosporus and its national highways during the first five months of 2015, official figures revealed June 24.

A tender for the link roads within the scope of the Northern Marmara Highway project, which includes the under-construction third bridge over the Bosphorus, has been postponed yet again, as the interested parties need more time to finalize their proposals, according to an announcement by the General Directorate of Highways.

Turkey is continuing to struggle with bad weather conditions, as wintry snow and rain again hit parts of the country.

Many regions in Turkey, including Istanbul, the eastern Marmara region, the Aegean region and the Black Sea region, were surprised by snowfall, which continued on April 9 after snowfall swept the country on the previous night.