Thousands of passengers “embraced” the premiere of the 24-hour operation of the metro – Kyranakis: “Young people will return home safely”

The archetypal Saturday of Attica’s 24-hour public transport system operated successfully, with thousands of citizens returning location safely utilizing the metro, tram and buses.

Speaking to ERTNews, Deputy Transportation Minister Konstantinos Kyranakis stressed that the implementation of the roadworthy volition prevention respective lives, arsenic young radical volition instrumentality location safely.

“It is hard to beryllium but perfectly existent that from today, and each Saturday, immoderate lives connected Greek roads volition beryllium saved precisely due to the fact that workers are making a immense effort truthful that we present person a 24-hour metro, 24-hour autobus lines, and a 24-hour tram each Saturday night. This is wherefore we are doing it: truthful that particularly young radical tin get location safely connected Saturday nights; for their parents, who worry; for each young idiosyncratic who wants to spell retired successful Athens connected a Saturday nighttime to person amusive and wants a reliable alternate truthful they don’t person to interest astir however they’ll get back,” said Mr. Kyranakis.

For his part, the CEO of STA. SY., Thanasis Kottaras, told ERTNews that “we are precise blessed for 2 reasons.”

“Firstly, due to the fact that for the archetypal clip we are implementing the 24-hour Saturday cognition successful the metro,” and “secondly and astir importantly, due to the fact that contiguous thousands of passengers and particularly thousands of young radical embraced this nighttime cognition of metro lines 2 and 3, trams and autobus lines.”