Reactions to hikes in road tolls, highway project delays

“We consider any increase in road tolls inconceivable,” said Central Greece Region authority chief Klearchos Pergantas in a letter to Transport and Infrastructure Minister Michalis Chryssohoidis, complaining that the E-65 national highway had been “amputated”. He also complained that the region was being “starved of funds” for roads due to a lack of political will.
“With just one look at the map,

anyone can see that the city of Lamia is being strangled functionally and developmentally by the road tolls,” underlined the city’s mayor George Kotronias in his own letter the minister and the appropriate Parliamentary committee. He pointed out that the bulk of the city’s traffic had now moved to the rural road network and residential areas and risked creating a new “Maliakos” that would claim hundreds of victims.
Similar warnings were issued by the east central Greece technical chamber, which said that any decision to stop work on the E-65 highway would be “criminal”.

source: ΑΜΝΑ