The government is investing nearly €4 billion on six major road projects that will plug gaps in infrastructure.
These are what the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has labeled flagship projects. The spending figure does not include important but smaller scale roadworks, according to the specialized website ypodomes.com.
The six projects are: the Northern Crete Motorway (BOAK), currently the largest new closed motorway project in Europe; the completion of the E65 highway; the Flyover project on Thessaloniki’s Ring Road; the Halkida bypass; the Bralos–Amfissa road axis; and the Ioannina-Kakavia project extending the Ionian Highway Albanian border.
Completion of the BOAK motorway will help greatly improved road safety on Greece’s largest island, as the present road running along Crete’s northern coast has long been notorious for the number of accidents along its route. Completion of the E65, running diagonally across central and northern Greece will significantly reduce travel times to the country’s northwest.
The Thessaloniki Flyover project will help reduce congestion on the second largest city’s ring road, which also serves through traffic from the west and south to the east, along Egnatia Highway. The Bralos-Amfissa axis will greatly reduce travel from the city of Lamia to the Rio-Antirrio bridge and on to the western Peloponnese.
