“In the summer of 2026 the safe line Athens – Thessaloniki”
“Employees are doing well and will do well to highlight security problems. I encourage them to do so. Make it fearlessly. I encourage them every problem they find in trains, subway, ISAP, buses, everywhere. To do so fearlessly, “the Deputy Minister of Transport said today Konstantinos Kyranakis Speaking on ERT television and the show “Connections”.
Asked about the dismissal of a Hellenic Train employee, he replied “we are not workers, to say what to do or not do a company.” Regarding the staff on the railway and his evaluation, the Deputy Minister said, “In terms of workers, we insist on a better assessment and education model that will include practical exercises with objective criteria: reflexes, psychometrics, pressure management scenarios. All that the first line employee needs. ” And he emphasized “these exams before hiring and in regular evaluation are the doctrine we want to apply. If this Hellenic Train does not apply it, we reserve the right to suspend its license. The same doctrine will apply to OSE officials. “
“In the summer of 2026 we will have a safe Athens – Thessaloniki line. At the beginning of this week we signed the contracts for the restoration of projects in Thessaly, which have a very tight 15 -month timetable and restore the line to which the most severe weather of the last century has certainly dragged everything, including the whole rail.
“At the moment, at that time there is a temporary rehabilitation, which was done at the end of the 23rd of the then leadership of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport and OSE administration. So at that point, because there is no telecommunications right now, a very strict rule is kept that says no train is on the line unless the previous one has evacuated. In other words, only one train occupies these kilometers of the line that are in Daniel’s restoration projects. “
As Konstantinos Kiranakis explained: “It is precisely because the ministry has made two lines, the circulation will not be interrupted as long as the projects are executed, That is, Greece will not be cut in the middle. In the rest of Athens-Thessaloniki the administration and signaling operates normally. We did the first tests, which means that trains now, on their machine, have the automatic braking system to be able to be able to brake when there is a traffic light, when there are some rules that are not observed, to brake automatically without human factor, and so we need it all.
He noted that “We are implementing a system of precise geotoism that will operate throughout the network, not only in Athens-Thessaloniki”.
“The simple GPS we have on mobile gives us a deviation of up to 15 meters. This in a double descent rise line is precarious because it is next to each other and obviously if the simple GPS is detected in the divergence of the 15 -meter -off divergence a train on the next line we will have an accident. So here we have found a system that corrects the satellite signal with ground stations that already exist. They are already established in Greece, “he said.
“So, every train, every train engine will bring a special type of transmitter, which will correct the signal and in real time will give precision a few centimeters. In contrast to what we have on our mobile, It will accurately give a few centimeters to the actual train position, its speed, the overall reference from all the delayed itinerary, which was left more than the unpredictable, and in combination with cameras we can see complete details of the position, course and overall train performance. Throughout the network I repeat for all driving units. We will have this system on every vehicle moving on rails. “
“It is important for people to see in practice if what we are saying is true.”
“Through railway.gov.gr in less than three months from today the citizen He will be able to see from his cellphone, his computer, the exact position and course of the train »the Deputy Minister of Transport added.
Then Konstantinos Kiranakis said: “I want people to feel that we give a visibility to all that we do. Because good announcements, good acronyms or even all that has dominated the public dialogue, But it is important for people to see in practice if what we are saying is true. “
Surveillance drones
Regarding the big issue of sabotage but also Pliatsiko in trains and on the OSE rail network, Deputy Minister Konstantinos Kiranakis said “the drones system that has been installed on the Greek railway, which was made by the former minister. train. People come out of camps and throw stones at the trains. “
Answering a question by reporters about what is happening with these incidents, the Deputy Minister replied “they are arrested. Arrests have been made, because with the drones that now patrol those areas, but not only, we have a video material that catches them in the incident that we saw the video a few days ago, the arrest was made within 15 minutes. ” “I would like to thank the Police and the responsible Minister, Mr. Chrysochoid, for we have agreed that the abbs should now be finished with the video material that the police have in their hands can take action against specific persons and not in general. It’s something that is already happening, we are not saying something we will do, we say something that is happening today. Today we are talking about drones on the railway. “
New buses
For the refurbishment of the bus fleet, the Deputy Minister said: “Attica currently there are 500 new buses in Attica, which are seen daily by passengers and all drivers. By the end of the year we will have about 1,000 and by 2027 we will have 1,500 new buses in Attica. This, after a decade of crisis, where the fleet was left observed and there were no funds to be renewed. “
And he added, “the full renewal of the fleet until the end of this government’s term is a bet by Kyriakos Mitsotakis and of course due to the increase in both buses and drivers – you will see these days campaigns on the streets of Athens for hiring new drivers – we will be able to reduce them.”
“So the bus will be able to reduce the standby times. I have unlimited respect for the man who wakes up early and waits patiently waiting for the bus to the stop and we have an obligation to this man, to give him a better, more quality service, with a new, clean bus coming on time, we will go to work faster,
On the issue of renovation of trains in ISAP and suburban, he said: “The subway and ISAP trains are also increased and increased. We will have after many years of renovated ISAP trains. Already inside the stations it has become a great job so that they can be cleaner, more modern. The same should be done on their external appearance, so do the suburban, where the stations are in very poor condition. New trains from the Hellenic Train will also have in the suburban, new Dimitrian trains for the Metro routes to the airport, we will have more refurbished and more metro trains that will reduce the wait, as well as full fleet renewal on buses. “