Traffic in Greece is complicated and partially paralysed due to a 24-hour strike of transport sector workers on Friday, Greek media reported.
Suburban trains in Athens have been completely stopped, Athens taxi drivers have also joined the strike. However, metro and trams are operating in the Greek capital – mainly to provide rally participants with a lift in front of the parliament building.
Disruptions are expected in the dispatch and reception of flights at the country’s airports, as Greek air traffic controllers are also taking part in the strike.
The strike marks the second anniversary of a railway disaster in the Greek region of Thessaly. On February 28, 2023, an intercity passenger train collided head-on with a freight train there, killing 57 people. The accident was the deadliest in the history of railway traffic in Greece.
Some speculate that the goods train was carrying flammable chemicals. In January 2025, audio recordings circulated online suggesting that some victims may have died “due to suffocation or burns from the powerful explosion and fireball that pierced the carriages,” the piece notes. Many families who lost loved ones in the accident are investigating their deaths on their own.
