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Athens News Agency: News in English, 06-02-20

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

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  • [01] Long-awaited Thessaloniki metro works to begin in May

  • [01] Long-awaited Thessaloniki metro works to begin in May

    Construction work to build a long-proposed metro system in the northern city of Thessaloniki will begin in May after whatever obstacles in a tender procedure have been cleared up by the European Union, Public Works Minister George Souflias said on Monday.

    Speaking to reporters, the minister said the project was expected to be ready in 2012. It will feature 9.5 km of lines with 13 stations and will service around 250,000 passengers daily. The project is budgeted at one billion euros.

    Souflias also said that Attiko Metro, the public-private company that manages Athensâ metro system, recently signed a contract to extend its lines from Egaleo to Haidari, two neighbouring districts in working class west Athens.

    The line from centrally located Monastiraki to Haidari will also envisage a station in Eleonas, where Panathinaikos FC is likely to build its new soccer stadium. The extension line from Monastiraki to Egaleo will be delivered in April 2007, while the line from Egaleo to Haidari in 2008.

    The Greek minister said an extension from Aghios Dimitrios to Helliniko, in southeastern coastal Athens, will have four in-between stations and will be ready in 2009. Souflias added that Attiko Metro will finish two new stations at the National Mint site and Holargos in the autumn of 2007 and another station in the Aghia Paraskevi district (northeastern Athens) in early 2008.

    (Caption: Public Works Minister George Souflias on Monday unveils the final plans for a new metro system in the northern city of Thessaloniki. ANA photo / P. Saitas)

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