Delays in the B169 expansion: Archeology ensures new challenges!
Delays in the B169 expansion: Archeology ensures new challenges!
As part of the road construction project to lay federal road 169 between Riesa and Salbitz, which began this year, extensive archaeological finds have been made. This has not only extended the construction period, but also increased the costs of the project. According to Markus Heier, the head of the Leipzig branch of the State Office for Road Construction and Transport (LASUV), the schedule will be adapted to probably up to 2027 due to the necessary further investigations. "We need longer than we imagined," said Heier in a report by the .
archaeological finds delay construction work
During the excavations, numerous valuable artifacts from different eras were discovered, including 5500 -year -old Stone Age mines as well as objects from the Iron Age and the Roman Empire, as the head of the State Office for Archeology, Christoph Heiermann. A total of 385 individual findings were exposed, and the excavation area of around 52,000 square meters was opened between 40 centimeters and one meter deep to secure the finds below. These archaeological studies must be ensured that the cultural importance of the building area is recognized, as Heiermann emphasized after the finds clearly underlined the historical legacy of the region, so reports Die Zeit .The delays could mean that the actual construction of construction, which was originally planned for 2026, cannot be carried out as intended. Nevertheless, the necessary infrastructure, such as the laying of a maximum voltage current route, is promoted in parallel to the other archaeological work. The construction costs, which have recently been estimated at just under 57 million euros, are also to be updated, since the extensive archaeological work increases the total editions significantly.
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