Korydallos metro station (blue line) will be closed on Saturday and Sunday (April 13-14) to allow for the installation of new e-ticket equipment.
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Motorcyclist deaths account for 38% of all road traffic accidents in Greece, compared to 18% in the rest of Europe, according to data.
LOT Polish Airlines reinstated direct flights from Athens to Warsaw on Thursday.
Two more Hellenic Railways (OSE) officials accused of delays in implementing a contract for the rail network’s signaling and remote command were released Thursday on large bail amounts.
Fans of the Thessaloniki soccer club PAOK unfurled on Thursday a large banner calling for justice for the 57 Tempe railway collision victims in front of the European Parliament building in Brussels, where they are attending a quarter-final game against Club Brugge in the Europa Conference League.
Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Christos Staikouras is participating in the proceedings of the summit and the business forum of the Three Seas Initiative, in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Wednesday and Thursday.
The European Commission on Tuesday approved an investment of more than 10 million euros from the Cohesion Fund for the renovation of 14 trains used on Athens metro system’s Line 1, which runs from Piraeus to Kifissia through several Athens neighborhoods.
“At Tempe, our country collided with all that plagues it,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said during the no-confidence motion against his government.
Passenger traffic at Athens International Airport (AIA) rose 20.1% in March 2024, compared to March 2023, with passengers reaching 2 million.
The Piraeus Line 3 metro station (blue line) will be closed on Saturday and Sunday (April 6-7) to allow for the installation of new e-ticket equipment.
A livestock cargo ship ran aground north of the islet of Pserimos in the Dodecanese island complex on Friday.
Ships and ferries will remain docked on April 17 throughout Greece following a decision by the Panhellenic Seamen’s Federation to join a 24-hour nationwide strike called by private-sector trade union federation GSEE on the same day.
New Left Party leader Alexis Haritsis visited the Hellenic Train engine room in the Attica suburb of Rentis on Wednesday to discuss railway service conditions with employers amid the ongoing investigation into the Tempe rail crash.
Test runs began in Athens on Tuesday for 32 of 140 new electric buses that road transport organization OSY has bought from Chinese company Yutong.
The Committee for Aviation Tourism has been re-established by decision of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport in collaboration with Ministry of Tourism.
Greek railway operator Hellenic Train has been fined 100,000 euros over the deaths of two pedestrians, in 2023 in Thessaloniki and in January this year in Athens.
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