Increases and strikes in public transport

Metro and ISAP workers are moving to a 24hr strike on Monday 31 January, reacting to the regulations in the bill for the restructuring of urban transport issued in Parliament with minor modifications. On the ame day the workers of city buses will carry out a 5-hour work stoppage from 11am to 4pm in order to attend their general meeting.

On Saturday however, at the general meeting of OASA it was decided for the workers to strike on Tuesday and Wednesday to express thus their opposition to the new bill in which it is provided that the obligatory transfers exclude those who are eligible for pension in 2011, while priority is given to those in detachment outside OASA. The term “termination of SSE” was changed to «replacement».

From Tuesday, February 1 there will be new and increased prices – up to 80% – in urban transport tickets. OASA announced that older tickets can be used until Monday February 14. From February 15 until April 1, older tickets will be exchanged with new ones at the OASA offices, Metsovou 25, and the metro stations in Syntagma and Panepistimio.