EghtesadOnline: Contracts worth 25 trillion rials ($556.54 million) was signed between the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development and the private sector on Sunday for the construction of 439 kilometers of freeways along six routes across the country, namely Ardakan-Mehriz, Mashhad-Qouchan, Lamerd-Parsan, Section-9 of Tabriz-Urmia, the northern bypass road of Arak and the eastern bypass road of Sirjan.

EghtesadOnline: The Tehran-North Freeway, connecting the capital city Tehran to Chalous in Mazandaran Province, will fully come on stream by March 2023, said Mohammad Saeedikia, the head of Mostazafan Foundation, a large socioeconomic conglomerate in Iran that oversees the project.

EghtesadOnline: The government says it will complete the construction of a 222-km freeway connecting the cities of Isfahan and Shiraz by the end of the next Iranian year (March 2019).

EghtesadOnline: With a visit of the First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri to Tehran-north Freeway, the construction operation of the second section of this freeway with the length of 22 km started on Saturday.

EghtesadOnline: The government has invested 30 trillion rials ($800 million) in the past two Iranian years (March 2015-17) for the construction of freeways across the country, a deputy minister of roads and urban development said.

EghtesadOnline: More than 285 kilometers of freeways have come on stream since August 2013 when President Hassan Rouhani took office, according to the deputy head for construction and development at Transportation Infrastructure Company.

EghtesadOnline: The sixth five-year development plan stipulates that the total length of Iran’s freeways should reach 7,500 kilometers by 2022, which marks the end of the plan, the deputy for planning and resource management at the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development said.

EghtesadOnline: The construction of the first section of the freeway connecting Tehran to the northern Mazandaran Province has made 77.5% progress, a deputy minister of roads and urban development said.

EghtesadOnline: There are 900 kilometers of freeways under construction in Iran, the deputy head of Construction and Development of Transportation Infrastructures Company, affiliated to the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development, said.