Plan to strengthen the Attica bus network

Attica’s autobus and trolley autobus operator, OSY, has accrued the fleet of special work vehicles for radical with disabilities, from three to 10.

With electrical buses, hydrogen vehicles and caller technology trolleybuses (the so-called IMC), Athens municipality transport seeks to renew its fleet, while successful parallel it will proceed the signifier of granting autobus lines to backstage individuals.

Regarding hiring drivers, the deficiency of which is simply a thorn successful the broadside of municipality transport, the extremity of Athens buses (OSY) is to summation their fig to 3,200 by the extremity of the year, from astir 2,750 now, successful bid to tally 110% of the way readying of the Athens Urban Transport Organization (OASA).

Moreover, the deficiency of some 600 drivers has resulted successful services being skipped today, testing the patience of passengers. At the aforesaid time, successful the agelong term and arsenic the caller strategic transport program for Attica is being shaped by OASA, the extremity is for the fig of buses and trolleybuses to scope 2,000 vehicles by 2035, from astir 1,540 today.

That would lend to an summation successful travel by nationalist transport to 40%, from 27% now.

As announced connected Monday during an OSY lawsuit presenting the caller vehicles for disabled transport service, a tender by OASA for €15 cardinal is besides successful the works for the duty of an further 12-13 autobus lines to backstage individuals. 

This, it appears, will interest the concession of adjacent circular lines, similar successful municipalities such arsenic Papagou, so OSY tin strengthen everything that has to bash with a constrictive municipality cloth and precocious densities. 

OSY operates 200 autobus lines, while the concession of 63 determination lines successful Eastern and Western Attica for 8 years has already been preceded by a consortium under the KTEL and tourist buses.

On the operator hunt front, OSY reports, successful summation to the announcements of imperishable drivers – to eight-month contracts for the recruitment of 500 drivers – astatine contiguous lone 118 are the last applications that person been submitted.

In the meantime, OSY has accrued the fleet of special work vehicles for radical with disabilities, from three to 10, successful bid to service much citizens.

“We used to screen implicit 3,000 radical annually, present we will screen 6,000,” said Stefanos Agiasoglou, the main enforcement serviceman of OSY.