Athens Tram

Syntagma metro station will be closed on Sunday, March 24, and Monday, March 25, from 8 a.m. until the parades marking Greece's Independence Day have been completed.

Transport operator STASY said trains will pass through Syntagma station without stopping.

The Maniatika metro station in Piraeus will be closed on Saturday and Sunday for the installation of electronic ticket sales equipment. 

This temporary closure marks the initial phase of a project aimed at gradually implementing new entrance and exit gates, automatic ticket machines, and management centers across six stations along the extension of Line 3.

One pedestrian was fatally injured and another seriously when a car collided with a tram at Edem station on Thursday in the southern Athenian suburb of Palaio Faliro.

The car deviated from its lane and crashed into the oncoming tram after violating a traffic light and hitting the two pedestrians. According to Urban Rail Transport (STASY), no passengers were injured.

The workforce of the Athens tram and metro are to hold a three-hour 'warning' work stoppage on Tuesday, from 10 p.m. until the end of their shift.

The regular metro and tram services will be disrupted on Saturday due to a scheduled parade marking the anniversary of the Ochi Day, police announced.

The routes will change as follows:

The public information services on the Athens public transport network at the main entrances to the Greek capital have been upgraded, with an info kiosk at the arrivals area of Athens' international airport and the creation of a new service desk at the metro station at the port of Piraeus.

In July, if everything goes smoothly, the tram will start operating in Piraeus. The project, which has faced a number of obstacles, most recently with the delay of the works in the Faliriko Delta, in which it got "stuck" more than a year ago and the dilapidated listed building on Homeridos Skylitsis street, enters the final stretch.

Trams are scheduled to start running again on the section of track connecting the southern Athens coastal districts of Palaio Faliro and Neo Faliro on Monday after it was temporarily closed due to construction work for the renovation of the Faliro Bay area in March 2020.

A series of test runs on the Athens tram line extension from Neo Faliro to Piraeus on Friday and from next Monday through Friday are expected to cause traffic disruption and motorists are advised to use caution.

Friday's test will be carried out between noon and 4 p.m. while next week's will be daily from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

There will be no services on Friday on the Athens tram from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and on the Athens metro from noon to 6 p.m. so that workers can join their unions' general assemblies.