Public transport under spotlight

As part of the government's effort to revamp the capital's mass transport services, around 30 employees of the Athens Urban Transport Organization (OASA) who had been transferred to the offices of MPs and political parties will be put back behind the wheel, according to a decision by Deputy Transport Minister Yiannis Kefaloyiannis.
The employees in question, primarily bus drivers, had been shifted by the previous government from OASA in order to serve politicians. Most of these politicians were not re-elected in last month's general election.
The ministry's decision Friday to give these employees their old jobs back is part of the effort to tackle serious staff shortages, and resources for that matter, that have had a crippling effect on OASA.
At the same time, Attica's bus and trolley bus operator (OSY) has been been hit an by epidemic of sorts as a disproportionate...