{"id":14385,"date":"2026-04-10T22:58:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/easter-exodus-almost-630000-cars-left-athens\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:58:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:58:02","slug":"easter-exodus-almost-630000-cars-left-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/easter-exodus-almost-630000-cars-left-athens\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter exodus: almost 630,000 cars left Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1300741\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Traffic-320x200.png?v=1775859792\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Traffic.png?v=1775859792\" alt=\"Easter exodus: almost 630,000 cars left Athens\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Traffic-960x600.png?v=1775859800\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>INTIME file photo<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>More than 250,000 passenger cars left Athens through the two major national highways to the north and west of the city on Thursday and Friday alone, police announced.<\/p>\n<p>Most of these cars \u2013 over 170,000 \u2013 left on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Since last Friday, April 3, when the Easter exodus actually began, a total of 629,214 cars left the capital area, up from 616,397 over the same period last year, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic on the two main highways had lightened considerably by Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/news\/1300741\/easter-exodus-almost-630000-cars-left-athens\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INTIME file photo More than 250,000 passenger cars left Athens through the two major national highways to the north and west of the city on Thursday and Friday alone, police announced. 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