‘Ditch the car, use public transport,’ consumer group urges

After a weekend of events successful cities and towns crossed Greece marking European Mobility Week (September 16-22) – which included street closures successful downtown Athens connected Saturday and Sunday – the Union for Working Consumers of Greece (EEKE) is urging commuters to opt for nationalist transportation connected Monday. 

It is an opportunity, the radical said successful an announcement, “to bespeak connected the biology interaction of αυτοκίνητο use and to beforehand alternate means of transportation that are friendlier to some the situation and our health.” 

According to information from Greece’s statistical authorization (ELSTAT) provided by EEKE, there were 6,027,946 cars registered successful the state successful 2024, of which 5,994,386 were for backstage use, on with 1,851,620 motorcycles. 

“The sheer fig of vehicles, particularly successful municipality centers, has a large effect connected residents’ regular lives, who look traffic congestion, aerial contamination and sound pollution, and successful galore cases, difficulties with accessibility connected the streets and sidewalks of ample cities,” the radical said.