“The data does not appear to be violated by the buses of public transport bus drivers,” Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Konstantinos Kyranakis, said, answering topical questions from SYRIZA MPs Giorgos Karamou Intercity transport and tourist buses, on the occasion of the collision of the two buses in Voula.

For this traffic accident, the Deputy Minister denied complaints that made an exhaustive working hours of the undefeated driver, noting that “according to the data, the previous one was in a shift of seven hours and twenty minutes, under the permissible hours. On that day she was at the wheel of 3.5 hours and her shift, if she had finished, would not go beyond the legal time. Its average employment during the previous week was 8 hours and 29 minutes. Therefore, no indication of a 16 -hour work shift, reported by the complaints, is confirmed. ” Mr Kiranakis stressed that “the driver herself, in a conversation with OASA, confirmed that these complaints about work beyond her legal working hours were not valid.”

The deputy minister added that, according to the data he requested and received a total of OASA drivers, last month it was found that there were 12 days off. At the same time, the situation on the bus said that “it was a brand new vehicle, which was first released in October 2024, the air conditioning, its brakes were operating normally, and had no old tires. The telematics data show that this vehicle was moving with 32 kilometers. “

As he pointed out, according to the new CMC voted by the House recently, prosecutors are allowed for the first time to investigate when we have such a traffic accident as the one in Voula with serious injuries and to lift the confidentiality to examine whether the driver was talking about it at that time.

For the rights of the two bus wounded passengers, Mr Kyranakis said that the Attica Consortium had created an internet support phone line to make knowledge of their compensation and legal rights.

Concerning the contract signed by the OASA with the Attica Consortium, the Deputy Minister emphasized that it “provides 2.7 drivers per day for the day for the time to come out and the shifts do not exceed the legal limit”. “In any case, 16 -hour shifts are completely illegal and cannot exist,” he added, noting: “OSY drivers work at the shift for 7 hours and 20 minutes.” He asked for complaints of exhaustive hours and above the legal threshold to be proven by specific data.

He also rejected the objections of a charity contract between the OASA and a consortium of Attica transportation, which is your “friends”, opposing that “first I was the one to start the process of having criminal clauses and to be brought when there were violations of the services offered by the consortium.”

Mr Kiranakis argued that this contract is interesting to the public with the KTEL consortium, as comparatively the cost per kilometer from the consortium is about half.

According to him, the consortium drivers “are not” whatever it is “are professionals, have received training and a professional certificate with exams, have experience, as well as this guide had a five -year experience.” “And these drivers have rights and any driver who violates him the legal time of his shift to complain to us to impose clauses and interrupt any such situation,” he added.

Regarding the upgrading of the bus fleet, the deputy minister told Mr Karameros that “in 2019, the SYRIZA government handed us a fleet that the newest bus circulating on the streets was in 2011, that is, eight years, and the majority of the fleet and the majority of the fleet” Traffic and damage that has troubled the passengers on your own days of governance in relation to today. “

He also pledged to investigate the complaints of the Federation of the Federation of Professional Transport Drivers, as Mr Iliopoulos said, but stressing that they are representatives at the secondary level and “the OASA drivers’ association, with which I have many meetings and many meetings that have been in In subsequent plans of law we will bring. ” Regarding the complaints of the Federation of Drivers on Tourist Buses, the Deputy Minister said that he would have a meeting in the near future.

Mr Karameros, referring to the collision of the two buses in Voula, who, as he pointed out, “is indicative and proof of the state of transportation in Attica”, stressed that “on the same itinerary six days later we had the driver who parked it without securing it for 150 meters.” He accused Mr Kyranakis that after Voula’s traffic accident he rushed to try and condemn the busy bus driver who caused the serious accident, instead of “answering why you were assigned to the 63 -year -olds for eight years to privately owned 38th. Because in 2020 the ND government changed the KTEL’s internal regulation, leaving private bus owners to decide on their own drivers, who will hire drivers and how they will work with these results. “

Mr Iliopoulos stressed that the traffic accident in Voula “highlighted in the most dramatic way a systemic problem, the labor exhaustion and the over -expansion of urban transport drivers in Attica”. He pointed out that “as they have been reported by their trade union representatives, drivers are obliged to work in successive long -term shifts, with inadequate rest time, without substantial offspring, and we also have cancellations of their resting days imposed by atypical orders”.

On the bus driver in Voula, the New Left MP stressed: “We have not heard any denial from the ministry of complaints by her colleagues in reports. He had carried out two 16 -hour shifts over a four -day period with a minimum of rest, and had worked in the past few days. ” According to him, this “is not merely exhaustion but a labor abuse and violation of any basic rule of safety and health at work”. “We also have a similar picture of violations in other categories of transport drivers, with the most characteristic of KTEL drivers and tourist buses, an industry you have not encountered as stated in a statement by the Federation of Transport Transport Federation,” he added. ” Finally, Mr. Iliopoulos asked Mr Kyranakis to provide information on the ministry’s checks on the terms of work on OSY, KTEL and tourist buses.