Metro: The great challenges of Line 4

The time for the public work project of the decade has arrived. The contract for the construction of the first phase of the new Line 4 of the Athens metro, which will connect the Veikou Grove in Galatsi with Goudi, will be signed tonight, in the presence of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The huge project, with a budget of 1.8 billion euros, with a story that began in the mid-1990s, through a series of new plans, announcements and obstacles, and after the "brake" of ten years economic crisis, is now on track.

The return to the metro to the center of Athens will be faced with new bets and challenges. On the one hand, the construction of the new 12.8 km long line, with 15 new stations, will bring a reasonable disruption to the daily life of citizens, especially drivers, who will have to adapt after more than 10 years in the presence of construction sites. in town. On the other hand, it will give new life to the construction industry, creating new jobs.

As stated by the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Mr. Costas Karamanlis, presenting the project to the Production and Trade Committee of the Parliament, this will have a positive environmental footprint as the average daily energy saved is estimated at 1,216 MWh and the average daily CO2 reduction is estimated at 318 tonnes.  Line 4 will carry a total of approximately 340,000 passengers per day, while car travel is expected to decrease by 60,000.

The first part of the line, in which 18 automatic dviver-less trains will "run" (a system that will be implemented for the first time in our country in the Thessaloniki metro), will cover at peak hours the need to transport 8,000 passengers in 2030, in the section with the largest load "Evangelismos-Kolonaki".

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