Street furniture

The Federal Government has released a “tool kit” for venue operators to assess the vulnerability of their site and better protect it against a potential terrorist attack.
It outlined a blueprint for “layered security” at venues, including CCTV, X-ray screening and physical barriers like bollards to prevent vehicle attacks at crowded places like shopping centres and sports stadiums.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called on Sunday for developers to incorporate safety features into their projects to prevent militant attacks with vehicles and other weapons as he announced new plans to protect the public, Reuters reports.

A magistrate on Crete Friday gave a 20-year-old motorist who killed two pedestrians on Thursday when he hit them with his car an extension until Monday to prepare his defense.

The Georgian national hit a 20-year-old woman and a 19-year-old man while they were walking along a road near the Technical University of Crete in Hania.

Kozani on Friday became the first city in Greece to introduce underground garbage cans in a bid to do away with the unsightly and malodorous wheeled dumpsters that mar the country's urban thoroughfares. The northern Greek city's first batch of underground bins was placed at Bristol Square, with Eleftherias Square slated to come next.

Vandals destroyed electronic ticket machines at the electric railway station (ISAP) in Perissos, north of Athens, on Wednesday night.

According to authorities, a group of around 15 people with sledgehammers smashed machinery in a raid shortly before midnight.

No arrests were reported.

Bulgaria will have advertising billboards in New York, announced the minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova in Varna while participating in a National Tourism Council in Golden Sands resort. Reported InvestorBG.

Using CCTV images, the police managed to identify the three men who used a sledgehammer to smash the new ticket machines that have been installed at Omonia metro station in central Athens. The attack took place on May 2 and led to eight new machines, designed to accept electronic tickets that are not yet in use, being destroyed, along with two existing ticket machines and an ATM screen.

The trash mountains blighting the Greek capital comprise something of a pet subject for politicians - one that is never really tackled with any great success. The only thing that is achieved with their prevarications is more tolerance for such phenomena. What can we as citizens do? Take the cleanup into our own hands, as Hollywood star Will Smith's daughter did on the island of Antipaxi?

A man who appeared intoxicated drove his car the wrong way up a Times Square street on May 18 and plowed into pedestrians on the sidewalk, killing one and injuring about 20 others, authorities and witnesses said. The driver was taken into custody and being tested for alcohol.

Unidentified vandals damaged three ticket validating machines on city buses in the area of Zografou near the main accommodation complex for Athens University students Thursday.

There had been no arrests in connection with the vandalism by late Thursday.