Participating towns and cities

Greece CITY OF ATHENS (ATHENS) , Greece

CITY OF ATHENS (ATHENS) already registered 11x for EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK in: 2024 2020 2017 2016 2015 2014 2012 2007 2006 2005 2002

Participation 2012

Activities within the week Activities within the week

CITY OF ATHENS (ATHENS) organises activities during EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK 2012, taking into account the annual theme.

All week
Athens, the capital of Greece, is a densely built-up city with relatively limited public space and overcrowded by parked or moving vehicles and scooters, leaving very limited space for pedestrians, children, cyclists and social functions. We want to take the opportunity of the European Mobility Week and bring forward for open public discussion the issues of human scale, environment, effective mobility, sustainable transport modes, respect to ourselves, to nature, to our fellow people, to our children. We want to discuss about public transport, public space, the bicycle and even for cleaner and smarter ways for the usage of cars and motorised private vehicles in the future. In this open public dialogue, we want to get involved as many as possible stakeholders, active citizens or citizen's organisations and provide them with the opportunity to propose, participate and take initiatives, in an organised and civilized manner. Since the existing infrastructure is limited and expensive, we want to cultivate new concepts of respect and co-existence with priority care and sensitivity for the most vulnerable users of the city common space. This will be the focal point of our major activity this year, the change of behaviour, thus starting building our "intangible" infrastructure.

Permanent measures Permanent measures

CITY OF ATHENS (ATHENS) implements, planned or promotes one or more new permanent measure(s), which contribute(s) to modal transfer from private car to environmentally sound means of transport.

New or improved bicycle facilities
Improvement of bicycle network (creation of new lanes, extension, renovation, signposting etc) implemented
Improvement of bicycle facilities (parking, locks etc) implemented
Pedestrianisation
Examine the legal aspects which lead to extensive occupation of pedestrian space by other users.
Further info
The permanent measure will be a traffic calming scheme with an appropriate low speed limit, which will allow the transformation of a local street to a bicycle corridor connecting two important archeological sites at the western part of the Municipality of Athens: The "Plato's Academy" with "Keramikos Cemetery". This corridor will also connect and complement the existing pedestrian scheme around the Acropolis and other prominent archeological sites in the city center. The length of the new corridor will be around 2km and the measure will be implemented mainly by road painting and markings.

Car-free day Car-free day

CITY OF ATHENS (ATHENS) carries out a Car-free day 2012 and closes off one or more streets to traffic, and opens it to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport.