Attiki Odos highway tolls will be reduced from 2.80 euros to 2.50 according to the new concession contract. The contract, which was approved by the board of directors of the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (TAIPED) and sent to the finance and infrastructure ministries for comments, stipulates that the tolls …

Schools in several areas of Attica will remain closed on Thursday due to snow and cold weather front “Philip”, Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Minister Christos Stylianides decided on Wednesday. The schools are in areas of north, east and west Attica. The specific areas affected by this decision were announced …

The Infrastructure and Transport Ministry said on Wednesday that it is imposing a fine of 2 million euros to the managing companies of the ring highway Attiki Odos for the shutdown during the snowstorm last month. IT is the highest fine permitted by the law. Minister Kostas Karamanlis has decided …

Eight alleged members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas, who had been detained in connection with the attack on a building of Attiki Odos, the Greek Police announced on Tuesday. The building on Mesogion Avenue was attacked with sledgehammers in the early morning hours. building using sledgehammers, have been placed under …

The management company of the Athens highway ring Attiki Odos announced on Thursday morning that all parts of the motorway reopened at 08:00 on Thursday morning, with unobstructed flow of traffic on all sections of the road. No tolls will be charged until Sunday midnight, January 30, to facilitate drivers, …

Motorway operator Attiki Odos on Tuesday accepted the resignation of its CEO, Bill M. Halkias, after hundreds of motorists were trapped on the company’s tolled highway around Athens in the Elpida snowstorm. In a company statement, Halkias, CEO of the company since 1999, stated that the last motorists had been freed …

A man is carrying a little girl on his back on a snowed road in the middle of the night. The man is a policeman and the girl a patient who needs to be operated in a hospital early Tuesday morning. The picture was shot at half an hour after …

Dozens of people and vehicles remain stranded on Attiki Odos ring road of Athens still early Tuesday afternoon, as Army, Fire Bridges and Police try to evacuate them. After having been trapped in a car struck in snow for over 26 hours, five people suffered hypothermia and were taken to …

The outgoing Greek government issued a legislative order essentially forbidding a planned increase in the toll fees in the greater Athens area’s sole tollway Attiki Odos. The government order followed a a recommendation by Transportation Minister Christos Spirtzis. The government cited what it called “defense of public interests and the …

Tolls on the Attiki Odos national highway will rise in two stages, on July 1 and on January 1, 2020, the company said on Friday. The decision triggered the anger of Transportation Ministry. All categories of vehicles will see rises. For cars in particular, current tolls of 2,80 euros will …

Greek police has proceeded to one arrest and 17 detentions of people looting and suspected for looting homes in the fire-affected areas of north-eastern Attica. Among the detainees were 10 members of the Roma community, while another Roman man was arrested in Penteli suburb on Thursday, media reported. The 46-year-old …

There has been little talk in the mass media about the causes of the wildfire in Varnavas in north-east Attica on Sunday that developed into an inferno of approximately 40 km within 36 hours. Initial reports on the day the wildfire started blamed “a BBQ” with its fire gone out …

The charred body of a woman was found late on Monday in a crafts facility that was severely damaged by the fire in Patima of Halandri, in north-east Athens. The body was identified to belong to a 65-year-old woamn from Moldavia who worked in the facility for the last 25 …

The big wildfire that started in north-eastern Attica on Sunday has reached the outskirts of NE Athens, Patima areas in the suburbs of Halandri and Vrilissia on Monday afternoon, 24 hours after its start. Skai TV has just reported that at least 3 houses in Patima, Vrilissia have been swallowed …

Alarm bells for water scarcity have been ringing for quite some time with the problem being significant on the islands in the peak of the tourist season where water consumption needs skyrocket and following a minimum of rainfalls in the last few months. The problem on the islands worsens not …

A total of 62 fires broke out in the last 24 hours, most of them due to lightning during the powerful weather front raging in Greece on Thursday, the Fire Brigade said. Οver 15,000 lightning bolts fell within nine hours across the country. 1,200 of them stroke Athens and Attica …

The Fire Service went on alert early Wednesday afternoon, when a wildfire broke out in Glyka Nera very close to Attiki Odos in north-eastern Attica in a dense forest.Authorities investigate whether the fire was caused by a drone that crashed on the ground. Four detentions. Residents of Athens saw black …

One man had died and another two have been seriously injured in wildfires that are raging in eastern Attica on Sunday. The fires have lead to evacuations of hundreds of people from several settlements and villages, have burned down houses and cars, destroyed people’s lives, extinguished the fauna and flora …

A wildfire in the eastern Attica has flooded residents of the south suburbs of Athens even those 50 km away and in opposite direction with warning message urging them to evacuate. According to the Fire Service, the fire broke out in the parking lot of a facility renting boats on …

Dozens of elementary schools located in Athens and broader Attica received bomb threats via e-mail on Wednesday morning, Greek police said. The e-mails with identical content were sent to at least 35 schools from an anonymous sender outside Greece and alleged that explosives were stored in schools in Gerakas, Aigaleo, …