This year Farmers will spend Christmas at checkpoints. On Tuesday, December 23agricultural protestors have decided to move tractors to roadsides to ease the movement of travelers during the festive period.
At the same time, police raise the issue of safety, pointing out that the presence of agricultural machinery on both sides of the roadway can create serious traffic risks.
Farmers stated that roads will remain open until at least Friday. At the same time, it remains unclear how traffic will be organized on the weekend, when many citizens will be returning from the Christmas holidays.
“If the government believes that the checkpoints will collapse, then it is mistaken. We continue and will act even more decisively,” emphasize representatives of farmer associations.
At the checkpoint in Nicaea and in coordination with other protest sites across the country through Panhellenic Commission of Roadblocks The farmers announced that they would redistribute tractors starting Tuesday morning so that vehicles could pass through the protest zones.
The day before, the direction of movement was opened towards Thessaloniki at a checkpoint in Malgarah. Regarding the strip towards Athensconsultations are ongoing between the police and farmers.
Farmers refuse to dismantle temporary buildings because they intend to spend Christmas dinner with families. For this reason, the traffic police are in no hurry to give permission for free movement of traffic in the direction of Athens.
IN Chalkis Euboea farmers made a decision from Tuesday to Friday refrain from coveringto make travel easier on holidays.
IN Central Greece checkpoint Thebes will remain active and the national road in this section will be closed for the entire holiday period.
At the checkpoint Egliade in Patras (direction Athens – Pyrgos), farmers left one lane between tractors for the passage of emergency services and ambulances. At the request of the police, equipment and materials are gradually moved to one side to clear the traffic lane and emergency lane.
Free passage of trucks will be ensured from Monday Kipi customs. Until Friday evening, truck movement will be carried out without restrictions. Already on Tuesday morning around 30 trucks received permission to travel to Turkey to unload the congestion.
More 250 trucks are on the Egnatia highway waiting to leave, and about the same number are on the Turkish side.
Farmers maintain a tough stance Western Thessaly, Karditsy (E65 highway is the country’s largest checkpoint) and Trikal at the Longos payment points. They decided to leave one lane in each direction The E65 highway has been open since December 23.
In the area Tiria Ioannina farmers announced a road blockade at a checkpoint Kalpaki on Monday from 19:00 to 22:00 exclusively for freight transport.
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