Revamped 40-year-old trains will boost Athens metro schedule

[Giorgos Vitsaras/AMNA]

Fourteen revamped trains archetypal used successful 1985 will gradually articulation the Athens metro fleet starting this summertime and ending successful 2027.

They will beryllium exclusively used connected Line 1 (Piraeus-Kifissia), the system’s oldest, that is widely plagued by delays, overcrowding and, arsenic importantly successful a metropolis with a long, blistery summer, deficiency of aerial conditioning. The revamped fleet is escaped of graffiti and will diagnostic modernized conductor cabins and integer info displays.

The task is down docket and the authorities has slapped Spain’s Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF), which is revamping the trains astatine a Volos installation successful cardinal Greece, with a €3.8 cardinal fine.