Greece: Tailbacks on highways
03. April 2010. | 07:16
Source: EMGportal
There was heavy traffic on all roads leading out of Athens on Good Friday, as city dwellers quit the capital in order to spend their Easter in the countryside.
There was heavy traffic on all roads leading out of Athens on Good Friday, as city dwellers quit the capital in order to spend their Easter in the countryside.
Traffic police report that a total of 750,000 cars have left the city of roughly five million in the past week, a higher number than in 2009, when 710,000 cars left the capital in the same period.
The trend was confirmed on Thursday, when 192,000 cars left the city, or 15,000 more than the previous year.
In spite of the heightened traffic on both major national highways leading out of Athens, motorists are not expected to meet extended delays in Attica except at the Kakia Skala tunnel.
Long tailbacks have formed since Friday morning, however, at the Zevgolatio toll posts due to works on the Corinth-Patras national road and at the Amfilochia intersection in western Greece.
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