Seven Exarchia residents win metro compensation

A tribunal has ordered compensation for 7 residents adjacent the planned Exarchia metro station, ruling that the operation ιστοσελίδα failed to support harmless pedestrian clearance connected Themistocleous Street.

The Athens tribunal rejected claims from 104 of the 111 plaintiffs but awarded the 7 remaining claimants €700 each – acold beneath the €3,000 each had sought. Both Elliniko Metro and the residents program to appeal. Resident activists, who person present secured 7 tribunal rulings against the project’s ιστοσελίδα management, reason the station’s operation should beryllium abandoned entirely, claiming its placement successful Exarchia Square was politically motivated.

Elliniko Metro dismissed those conclusions, saying the ruling requires lone a insignificant section accommodation to the ιστοσελίδα bound – not a wholesale redesign. The institution stated that operation studies are “in afloat progress” and that excavation work is expected to statesman imminently, pursuing submission and support of updated technical and traffic studies.