The tender for the first section of the Athens metro Line 4 will be launched within first five months of 2017, Attiko Metro Board Chairman Yiannis Mylopoulos said in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA).
The project involves the construction of 14 stations between Alsos Veikou and Goudi. The first section of Line 4 will have 11.7 km long, and it is estimated at EUR 1.2 billion.
This section is foreseen to serve 220,000 passengers on a daily basis and will reduce the daily number of private vehicles by 53,000. At the same time, CO2 emissions are expected to be reduced by 279 tons/day. It will take approximately 10 min to travel from Alsos Veikou to the city centre, and approximately 5min from Zografou area to the city centre.
The U-shaped Line 4 will have a total length of 32 km and 30 stations. The total cost of the project is estimated at EUR 3.3 billion.
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