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Athens News Agency: News in English, 06-04-24
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[01] Traffic police boost measures for Easter return
[01] Traffic police boost measures for Easter return
Traffic police have stepped up measures to ease the return of
holidaymakers who spent Orthodox Easter in the countryside, especially
after a high death toll in the country's annual exodus from the
cities.
According to police statistics, 40 people lost their lives in road
accidents until Monday morning, even before completion of the return to
the cities, while in 2005, the death toll was 41 for the entire period.
Many accidents occured in urban areas, mainly due to speeding in empty
roads.
Among measures authorities have taken to improve safety and ease
congestion are extra lanes on the city-entry side of motorways where
traffic jams are expected. In addition, trucks have been barred from
using major highways during the peak return period.
This year's exodus was the highest in recent years with 325,984, or
31.85% more vehicles leaving Athens and Thessaloniki than in 2005.
A total of 1,349,334 vehicles left the two cities against 1,023,350 a
year earlier, traffic police said.
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