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According to the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Christos Staikouras, utilizing the Thessaloniki Metro will not necessitate a summons during the archetypal 4 days of operation.
Travel with the Thessaloniki Metro will beryllium escaped connected the archetypal days of its opening.
According to the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Christos Staikouras, utilizing the Thessaloniki Metro will not necessitate a summons during the archetypal 4 days of operation.
He told FM100 that introduction to the Metro will beryllium escaped connected Saturday (11/30), Sunday (1/12), Monday (2/12), and Tuesday (3/12).
After that, the summons volition outgo 0.60 euros for 1 trip, and the 10+1 basal summons bundle volition outgo 5.80 euros.
The Thessaloniki Metro opens connected Saturday, November 30 and volition initially person 13 stations. It volition besides beryllium animal-friendly, with owners being capable to transport their four-legged friends successful tiny cages oregon a peculiar bag.
Today, the last touches were enactment on, and everything is acceptable for the long-awaited operation. In particular, signs with the caller logo were placed connected each presumption facades.
Residents of Thessaloniki person anticipated the completion and cognition of the metro strategy for galore years, arsenic dense roadworthy postulation is simply a persistent contented successful the regular beingness of Greece’s second-most biggest city.
The 3.5-billion-euro task was primitively expected to unfastened to the nationalist by 2012. Construction began successful 2006, but advancement was delayed owed to a bid of important archaeological discoveries successful the metro tunnels.
Skertsos: Thessaloniki has origin to observe this week, arsenic caller Metro starts cognition connected Saturday
This week is origin for solemnisation in Thessaloniki, arsenic the city’s caller Metro volition beryllium turned implicit for usage connected Saturday, State Minister Akis Skertsos told City 106.1 FM Thessaloniki vigor station.
Skertsos said the government’s prime of combining “both Metro and antiquities” astatine the ‘Venizelos’ halt was justified, and the metropolis volition get an internationally unsocial landmark.
“We should each commencement by apologising profusely to citizens who person suffered for astir 20 years to get the obvious, a modern wide transport means,” the curate said, who originates from Thessaloniki.
“It was a collective, chronic nonaccomplishment of respective consecutive governments that did not negociate to instrumentality successful a timely mode this indispensable work, based connected the specifications this indispensable enactment had to have,” helium added..
Speaking of Saturday’s inauguration, Skertsos, who originates from Thessaloniki, said helium “wouldn’t miss (it) for the world.”
Source: pagenews.gr
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