Thessaloniki Metro

Giorgos · 2nd October 2006, 07:05

The Thessaloniki Metro is underway now and this is a thread for the latest pictures and updates.

(Thessaloniki is the second city in Greece to recieve a metro system.)

Giorgos · 2nd October 2006, 07:08

Quote:

PM tours Thessaloniki Metro worksites, airport expansion project

Thessaloniki was changing the page, as the major public works projects which had remained on paper only were now being materialised, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis said Friday, as he toured two construction sites of the Thessaloniki Metro and Macedonia Airpot runway expansion works.

Karamanlis was briefed by Environment, Town Planning and Public Works Minister George Souflias on progress in the timetable for completion of the projects and, speaking at Macedonia Airport, the premier stressed that the residents of Thessaloniki had for many years been hearing announcements of major projects which, however, had remained only on paper.

New Democracy, he continued, had committed itself to changing page and to change the rhythms, and to turn the words into action. And this was what the entire government was doing, this was what the ministry was doing in the area of public works, Karamanlis said.

He said the Metro, a long-standing the dream of the Thessaloniki residents and the largest public works project ever in Thessaloniki, with a budget that exceeded one billion euros, was today being realised and progressing. In a few years' time, when it was completed, it would be even better than the Athens Metro, the most modern Metro in Europe, the premier said.

Also of great importance was the expansion project at Thessaloniki's Macedonia Airport, for reasons that were self-evident, for Thessaloniki's role in the future, Karamanlis said, adding that the project was proceeding at a rapid pace, and upon completion would render the airpot international, capable of safely receiving all types of airplanes and overseas flights without intermediate stops.

Also, he continued, the contract would be signed in the next few days for construction of the underwater artery, which would begin early next year. This major project, Karamanlis said, combined with the Metro, would ease the city's traffic problem and improve the environment.

http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showpl...4634&service=6

RWC-04 · 2nd October 2006, 10:00

when will it open?

Giorgos · 2nd October 2006, 10:45

It is expected to be ready in 2012.

dR_wHo · 13th October 2006, 13:59

At last this awesome city is getting that so much awaited metro!
I hope a tram line will follow...

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