Civil servants to be put off from using car

A new traffic plan for civil servants commuting to the public services that will be relocated from the city center to the former Pyrkal site in the east Athens suburb of Dafni-Ymittos, encourages the use of public transport and bicycles as the preferred mode of transport to offset any possible congestion that will occur.

The plan envisages that just 30-40% of the 14,000 public sector workers who will be commuting in a few years' time to the "government park" at the former industrial complex will do so by car.

More specifically, the study proposes to make life difficult for drivers by banning free parking in the area, reducing the main roads to one lane and other measures that will force them to use public transport or bicycles. Critics, however, note the absence of any provision or measure for the impact of the departure of nine ministries from the center of Athens.<...