Next week will be a taxing one for Greek commuters, starting with a 48-hour strike on fixed-track modes of transport on Monday and Tuesday and subsequent disruptions to services on buses and trolley buses, and a 24-hour strike by taxi drivers on Tuesday.

Workers protesting the government’s ongoing austerity drive are to halt services on the Athens metro, the Piraeus-Kifissia electric railway (ISAP) and the tram on Monday and Tuesday, while employees of buses and trolley buses are to walk out on Tuesday and Wednesday – the days that a new raft of austerity measures and controversial structural reforms for next year are to be debated and voted on in Parliament.

Unionists representing metro workers are to decide on Monday whether to run a limited service on Tuesday and Wednesday to enable people to attend anti-austerity demonstrations scheduled to take place in the capital.

There will be no service on the national or suburban railway on Tuesday and Wednesday either.

On Tuesday, there are also likely to be disruptions to scheduled flights as air-traffic controllers have called a three-hour work stoppage starting at 10 a.m.

Metro connections to the airport will not be operating on Tuesday or Wednesday irrespective of the metro workers’ strike plans as the signaling between Doukissis Plakentias station and the airport is operated by the national railway.