tendered on May 6, 2009. Apart from the con-
struction of 5 modern stations, the plans also pro-
vided for the construction of a Transfer Station, as
well as parking space for 1,000 cars at the Micra
terminal station. The extension of the Line to
Kalamaria has secured funding from CSF IV
resources, amounting to €425 million. Attico
Metro SA wishes to award the contract in 2011.
Moreover, the preliminary studies for the exten-
sion to Stavroupolis and Efkarpia with 5 new sta-
tions (topographical and geotechnical surveys,
routing of the project etc.) have been completed,
and will be followed by the maturity studies for the
project, whose extension to the area’s Hospitals
is also under consideration. According to the
Deputy Minister of Infrastructure, G. Magriotis,
the main line may have been completed (provid-
ed that no insurmountable problems occur) and
the line connecting the New Railway Station and
Micra may have come on-stream by late 2014-
early 2015. Moreover, the first line to western
Thessalonica may have been tendered by the
same time.
Thus, all Metro network
lines will have been completed by 2018 or the lat-
est by 2020.
8)
The Ministry is promoting a comprehensive
program aimed at both the reduction of “black
spots” and the
overall improvement of traffic
safety
on a road network covering almost 12,000
km throughout the country.
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According
to the draft law, the
initial study phase is totally
segregated from the other
phases, whenever the study
concerns technical works
whose design requires the
consideration of alterna-
tive solutions.
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