OSY

Employees on the Athens metro, the ISAP electric railway and the tram are due to begin rolling work stoppages from Tuesday until November 25, causing major disruptions to services.

Transport Minister Christos Spirtzis announced Friday that OSY, the transport authority that manages the capital's aging fleet of buses, would receive 500 new vehicles in due course.

His pledge came a few hours after a bus burst into flames on the capital's Mesogeion Avenue near Neo Psychico.

Bus and trolley bus operator OSY has indefinitely banned buses from driving though parts of the Exarchia district in Athens when they do not have passengers on board, citing a spike in arson attacks against vehicles.

One in three Athenians uses buses to get around on a daily basis, according to new poll carried out to help promote public transport use in the Greek capital.

Several changes in bus and trolley services come into effect on Monday as part of a gradual reorganization being carried out by Attica bus and trolley operator OSY.

Monday’s changes will affect the southern Athens network and are aimed at reducing bus and trolley services toward the city center while redirecting commuter traffic to the Athens metro.

Two inspectors working for the Attica transit operator OSY and two print shop owners have been indicted on felony charges by an Athens prosecutor after being arrested for issuing false fines to commuters caught without a valid ticket and pocketing the money themselves.

A group of bus aficionados have launched a campaign to find a permanent home for 15 vehicles dating from the 1950s that are currently housed in the OSY storage hangars in the central Athens neighborhood of Gazi.