“In the summer of 2026 the Athens -Thessaloniki safe line will be completed,” the Deputy Minister of Transport stressed, among other things. Konstantinos Kyranakisexplaining that by then “we will have all the systems we need”. “In three months at railway.gov.gr we will see all the trains,” he noted, and at the same time referring to drone patrols on the trains.
Mr. Kyranakis appeared positive about the emergence of safety problems in the media by the workers.
“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 it fearlessly, ”he said.
Asked about the dismissal Costa Genidounia From the Hellenic Train, Mr. Kyranakis limited to say: “We are not workers, to say what to do or not do a company.”
Evaluation and training on the railway
The Deputy Minister of Transport emphasized the need to evaluate and train staff on the railway. ‘We in terms of workers We insist on a model of better evaluation and education that will include practical exercises with objective criteria: reflexes, psychometrics, crisis management scenarios. All that the first line employee needs, “he said.
“These exams before hiring and in regular evaluation are the doctrine we want to apply. If this is Hellenic Train It does not apply it, we reserve the right to suspend its license. The same doctrine will apply to its employees OSE ‘, added.
Surveillance drones
Regarding the big issue of sabotage but also Pliatsiko in trains and on the OSE rail network the Deputy Minister Konstantinos Kyranakis said ‘the drones system which has been installed on the Greek railway, which was carried out by the previous minister’s actions, patrols around five main areas, where unfortunately most thefts, vandalism, and even train stoning are observed. 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, Because we have agreed that the abats must now be finished with the video material that has in its hands Police can take actions 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
To renew fleet of bus, 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 waiting times to stop. 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,
ISAP – Train
On the issue of renovation of trains to ISAP and Suburban He said: ‘The trains of the Measure and his ISAP. 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 Hellenic Train We will also have the suburban, new Dimitrian trains for the routes that go from the subway to the airport, we will have refurbished and more metro trains that will reduce waiting and complete fleet refreshing on the buses. “