“The new contract with Attiki Odos will safeguard the interest of the citizens and not of the contractors,” said Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Costas Karamanlis regarding the recent bad weather and stressed that “the responsibilities of the concessionaire are obvious.”
In an interview with Proto Thema, Mr. Karamanlis underlined that “the most important thing is that finally and for the first time, these responsibilities can be assigned to him.
The 1996 Attiki Odos contract was a classic “PASOK contract”, ie cut and sewn to the contractor’s measures. It bound us, without being ours. But our government, in 2020, created the legal framework for assigning responsibilities to concessionaires when highways are closed. We enacted article 65 of law 4663, in order to put an end to the phenomenon of creating problems in the road network and then for no one to pay … Therefore, responsibilities must be assigned. Sanctions must be imposed. And so it will be. We have already set up the Commission of Inquiry and we are waiting for its conclusion soon. “Yes to private initiative”, “yes to cooperation with individuals” but under a clear and strict condition: with a supervisory – and not decorative – role of the State with transparent terms, limits, obligations and rights “.
Regarding the planning of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport for the expansion projects of Attiki Odos, Mr. Karamanlis noted that: “This is something for which we are working intensively. But not all of these works are fragmentary. Looking ahead we can assume that in a few years Athens will have the “luck” – misfortune of many large cities abroad: its center will be inaccessible. That is why we are now trying to compose a grid of projects, “the projects of Attica”, with three very important interventions – extension of Kymi Avenue, extension of Rafina – Lavrio, extension of the western peripheral Avenue of Ymittos to Ilioupoli – which will raise a wall so that the capital is not “drowned” by traffic “.
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