Within the first itinerary of new electrical buses that are launched by O.SY. in Athens, the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport boarded Christos Staikourasaccompanied by the Basic Secretary of Transport Yiannis Xifaras and the CEO of O.SY., Stefanos Agiasoglou.
“Right this moment is a crucial day for city transport in Athens. The electrical buses are circulating, because the administration of the OSY and the political management of the Ministry had promised, on the streets of Athens”, stated the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport.
Mr. Staikouras, following inspecting the brand new autos on the firm’s depot in Agios Ioannis Rentis, boarded the primary electrical bus that operated route 909 (Agios Vasilios – Agia Sophia – Nicaea State, wider space of Piraeus).
Staikoura’s assertion
On the event of the launch of the brand new electrical buses, the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Christos Staikouras stated:
“Right this moment is a crucial day for city transport in Athens. The electrical buses are circulating, because the OSY administration and the political management of the Ministry had promised, on the streets of Athens.
All 140 electrical buses have been built-in into the transport venture of the Capital. Of those, 46 buses in the present day – for the primary time – serve residents. And within the coming weeks, the quantity is anticipated to double.
These are fashionable buses, with a decrease footprint when it comes to vitality affect and environmental penalties. Additionally, autos that serve residents with mobility issues.
City transport is being modernized. They’re transferring to a different period. However all of us should do much more to enhance the on a regular basis lifetime of the citizen, at all times respecting the passenger”.
The Basic Secretary of Transport, Ioannis Xifaras underlined:
“The Minister stated the entire level in relation to the precise procurement of the 140 buses.
As well as, it is very important emphasize that by this tender, we managed to obtain new buses following 2007, which implies that we now have now rebuilt the know-how required by the Group for the procurement plan and the subsequent tenders to come back, since as has already been stated by the political management of the Ministry, the long-term objective that has been set is the renewal of the complete bus fleet in addition to the growth of the bus transportation venture on the streets of Athens”.
The CEO of OSY S.A. Stefanos Agiasoglouwrite down:
“Together with the modernization of the buses, OSY itself is being modernized.
The city transport of Athens, within the final yr, having made a sequence of infrastructures for the digital modernization of the corporate, will serve the residents of Athens, as finest as doable”.
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