Nikaia metro station

The Nikaia station on metro Line 3 will be closed on Saturday and Sunday (April 20-21), due to works for the installation of new e-ticket equipment.

The station will reopen on Monday.

Korydallos metro station (blue line) will be closed on Saturday and Sunday (April 13-14) to allow for the installation of new e-ticket equipment.

The station will reopen Monday.

A special bus service, the X50, will operate between Agia Marina and Nikaia stations over the weekend.

The extension of the Athens metro to the port of Piraeus is likely to be ready in early 2018 rather than mid-2017, as had been originally planned, officials said on Friday as the tunnel-boring machine reached the point where Nikaia station is to be constructed.