Traffic on Rikoti Highway hampering voters from voting in regions
The Roads Department announced that work is underway to restore movement in the shortest possible time. Photo: On.ge.
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Traffic on the Rikoti Highway today created difficulties for voters travelling from the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi to the regions or vice versa to cast their votes.
The Roads Department of Georgia explains the reason for the restricted traffic was the collapse of a slope.
At the 155th kilometer of the Tbilisi-Senaki-Leselidze road of international importance (Rikoti section), part of the land collapsed on the adjacent slope of the road, due to which the road was partially closed", the Roads Department said.
The Roads Department announced that work is underway to restore movement in the shortest possible time.
Movement Droa posted this video on its Twitter account:
"This is happening now at Rikoti, people can't travel to the west and vote, they've been standing for 1.5 hours." - @Zuraja #GVote21 pic.twitter.com/0fXGfHQNbi
— Droa (@MovementDroa) October 2, 2021
Leader of opposition party Girchi - More Freedom Zurab Japaridze shared a video of the traffic jam on the Rikoti Highway on his Facebook page with a caption reading: "It is impossible for this to be a coincidence".
Japaridze wrote that due to the delay, people are unable to enter the regions or Tbilisi to vote.