The entire project is 66% complete, while the
tunnels are more than 86% complete. The
open sections of the motorway are almost 33%
complete, as the necessary expropriations
have not been finalized, leading to inevitable
delays.
2) The Elefsis-Corinth-Patra-Tsakona axis of
Olympia Odos is scaled back, and a large part
will be constructed later.
Construction work –prior to the shutdown– on
the new sections of the Corinth-Patras high-
way focused on large structures, such as tun-
nels and bridges.
The 5 new tunnels at Derveni, Mavra Litharia,
Akrata, Platanos and Panagopoula, will reduce
travelling distances, noise and air pollution,
also providing travellers with increased safety
and comfort. Tunnelling work is complete in
regard to the Panagopoula and Derveni tun-
nels (two Corinth-bound tunnels), while a small
section of the Mavra Litharia tunnels remains
unfinished. Overall, tunnelling work is 62%
complete.
The recommencement of the project will lead
to the construction of 120 kilometres of the
Corinth-Patras section, with two lanes and an
emergency lane per direction, and a Jersey
barrier in the middle.
Construction of the Patras-Pyrgos and
Alpheios-Tsakona sections, with a total length
of 164 kilometres, two lanes and an emer-
gency lane per direction plus a Jersey barrier
in the case of the former, and two lanes and a
Jersey barrier in the case of the latter section,
has been postponed to a later date.
3) The Nea Odos concession, with a total length
of 380 km, is divided into two main sections
and includes the, 196 km long, “Ionia Odos”
motorway, which stretches from the end of the
“Harilaos Trikoupis” bridge at Antirion to
Egnatia Odos, near Ioannina (interchange with
the Egnatia Highway). The Ionia Odos section
includes, among others, 24 bridges of single
carriageway of an approximate length of 7.0
km, as well as 4 tunnels of single carriageway
of an approximate length of 11 km.
It also includes a section of the PATHE motor-
way, with a length of approximately 172.5 km,
which stretches from the Metamorphosi inter-
change (Attiki Odos area) to Skarfeia –after the
town of Kammena Vourla– and the Schimatari-
Chalkis connecting branch of PATHE, with a
total length of 11 km.
Almost all scheduled construction and upgrad-
ing work on the PATHE motorway has been
completed.
4) The E65 road axis is the one beset with the
worst delays. It includes the section that
extends from the semi-junction with PATHE at
Lamia to the interchange with Egnatia Odos
(total length of 174 km), as well as the opera-
tion of the PATHE section from Skarfeia to
Raches.
According to the deal reached between the gov-
ernment and the concessionaire, the construc-
tion of the Lamia-Xyniada junction section (32
km) will be postponed to a future date, along with
the next 64 km section (Trikala-Egnatia), for
which a decision by the Council of State is still
pending.
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