Athens Great Bypass: a new major highway that "will unload" Kifisos

The modern highway, about the creation of which the country’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed his opinion, will end the daily torment of drivers who have to travel along the Kifisos Highway.

The need to create a new highway that will decongest Kifisos by removing the large number of passenger cars, as well as heavy vehicles transporting goods with destinations outside Athens, is considered “vital”. The Greek Prime Minister expressed his opinion on the plan “Μεγάλη Παράκαμψη της Αττικής”, a highway which, according to previous plans, starts from Ilika at the intersection with the ATHE highway (Αυτοκινητόδρομο ΑΘΕ) and ends at area of ​​Agios Loukas (Triasio Pedio).

Mention of the large-scale construction of the bypass road was also made a few days ago by GEK TERNA authorized advisor Mr. Petros Suretis in the context of the OT Forum. This time, however, it is proposed to start the highway not in Iliki, but in Inofite, and leave the end of the road the same – in Agios Loukas. The highway will be modern, 40 km long and two lanes in each direction.

Mr. Suretis noted that there is a legal framework for the implementation of this project, which will allow drivers of cars and heavy trucks to bypass the already congested road network of the Attica basin, and serve direct road connections to important industrial areas: Inofyta, Aspropyrgos, Elefsina, Triasio Pedio, as well as the cargo port of Piraeus.

It is noted that the tender for μεγάλη παράκαμψη της αττικής (“Great Bypass of Attica”) was declared in 2013, but in 2015, after many extensions, it was canceled by the decision of the mininfrastructure and transport, in connection with the regulations on compensation in concession agreements, if if the concessional agreements, if concessionaires of neighboring highways will prove that they suffered a loss of revenue due to the reduction in traffic load on them.

In 2019, the government of New Democracy “took it out of the table”, where it had been “collecting dust” for a long time, however, without achieving any significant progress. In May, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis brought the project back to the forefront, as part of an urban infrastructure reinvention that will improve traffic conditions in the capital.

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