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Kalkan Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: zros on May 04, 2011, 10:59:14 AM
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Counting the days now to my 4th holiday in Kalkan staying at Kisla just wondering if anyone has walked on, or seen the new path from Kisla which leads to Kalkan? Is it finished and safe to walk along.
Loving walking into Kalkan every night before having fantastic meals in rooftop restaurants I would appreciate if anyone could advise if the path is usable. Thanks.
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Have a look on Kalkan Local News. There was a roads update with pics yesterday.
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Thank you very much for that info. I have copied it for anyone else who may be interested:-
The contract to widen the stretch of the D400, up to a point beyond Kışla, stipulates that the contractors have 600 days to complete the task from 12th September 2009.
If they miss the deadline, penalties will be incurred. So here is the deadline date for your diary: Wednesday 4th May 2011.
So deadline for the road to be completed is today but it is not mentioning the pathway. I wonder if it is the same for the path.
Has anyone walked from Kisla to Kalkan on the new path?
Thanks
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I think the Kışla road was a local project, the D400 a national government project, so working to different rules. The long pile of gravel is in place for the lower Kaşbound carriageway of the D400 stretch past Kömürluk so hopefully not much longer. They may be given permission to pass the mid-May no more construction date, to get it finished. No doubt KTLN will keep us up to speed
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Thank you for the update I will certainly keep watching for any new articles on the pathway.
Looks like I will have to bring trainers to walk into Kalkan at night and save my heels for the cobble streets!
Two weeks and two days to go, hope the sun will be kind to us last week in May. :)
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Good luck with those heels - I would leave them at home (but then at 6 foot 3, I rarely wear them anyway)......
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I believe from local sources it will be about 4 weeks before the local road is complete... They are certainly busy working on it at the moment... The good news is it now has lights to make the stagger home easier once complete!
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Is anyone aware as to whether there is a lot of noise coming from these roadworks?
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Not much noise at the moment (or much activity), but certainly no jackhammering or blasting.
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Presume we are talking about the Kisla Caddesi as the pathway, there was certainly some significant work yesterday afaternoon at the Kalkan end. The wall between it and the D400 ( below the Luka) was torn down and the road raised quite a few metres near the bridge across the Dere to widen it for 2 way traffic. This has cut off a number of apartments and villas below the road, apparently pernanently as far as vehicle access is concerned and some steps from them to the raised Kisla Caddesi will be built. The noise and dust was pretty bad yesterday afternoon and early evening, and the jackhammering started at 8 am this morning.
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Like the first cuckoo of spring, I heard what I hope is the last jackhammer of spring, up near Kisla. The part of the D400 from Luka towards Kışla was also being watered this morning and there is only a small line of stones (one more layer?) left there.
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Does anyone have any idea of what is happening noise wise at the Luka end today?
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Noise wise, there is one machine chopping and crushing rocks on the Kisla Caddesi at the Luka end, the rocks are being carted off in lorries. Been pretty noisy this afternoon. Rumour has it that they might try to make the road passable but not tarmac it before they stop for the season ( if they stop). Maybe a few more days before they get to that stage. Whether they also try to put in some steps for the villas and apartments they have cut off is anyone's guess. They have propped a rickety ladder of sorts against the newly raised road (raised about 2.5 m) which is pretty useless, you need hiking boots, if not crampons to get out from those villas and it is definately a rock climb to wlak along the Kisla caddesi at the Kalkan end right now.
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Many thanks Anne for the update.
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We came back on Sunday and the lower (unfinished/unopened) carriageway of the widened D400 is nice and flat for walking on at the moment :)
The Kisla service road is as people have described above - not walkable when we left but probably not far off.
The path referred to in the original post leaves the Kalkan beach and rises steeply up to Komurluk and the upper entrance of the Palm Beach Club - it finishes at Komurluk. I understand a "sea" side path running from Kalkan to Kisla is planned but probably at least a couple of years off!