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Greece’s Highways: What Gets Built and What Gets Promised

Greece’s Highways: What Gets Built and What Gets Promised

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Greek highways tend to lead double lives. Some are built, slowly and painfully, over the course of decades. Others exist mainly as announcements, pulled out of ministry drawers when the political calendar demands it. This month offers a clean illustration of both.

Funding troubles, projects that missed their moment during the financial crisis and bureaucratic inertia have shaped the maturation of the country’s critical road corridors. The result is a landscape where strategically vital highways either arrive years late or circulate as proposals awaiting their turn in the spotlight.

The one that made it

On July 24, the final 46 kilometers of the E65 open to traffic, completing the motorway’s full 182.1 kilometer length. The official inauguration of the unified highway, covering the Kalambaka to Egnatia Odos section, takes place a day earlier.

The E65 very nearly did not survive. Construction group TERNA kept the project going through the depths of the financial crisis, maintaining active worksites on its southern section even during the period of capital controls imposed on Greek banks

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