{"id":3071,"date":"2025-02-01T19:24:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T19:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/01\/parking-woes-escalate-in-greek-capital\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T19:24:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T19:24:29","slug":"parking-woes-escalate-in-greek-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/01\/parking-woes-escalate-in-greek-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Parking woes escalate in Greek capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1260366\">\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\/2025\/01\/854c0473f82835c983e52424a3feaa51_4425667-1-320x200.jpg?v=1738358429\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/854c0473f82835c983e52424a3feaa51_4425667-1.jpg?v=1738358429\" alt=\"Parking woes escalate in Greek capital\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/854c0473f82835c983e52424a3feaa51_4425667-1-960x600.jpg?v=1738358430\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>[Yiannis Liakos\/Intime News]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Illegal parking in central Athens remains a major problem despite intensified enforcement efforts, city officials say.<\/p>\n<p>In just 12 days in January, municipal police issued 5,270 tickets for illegal parking, with over 2,100 violations involving cars blocking sidewalks, according to Deputy Mayor Thomas Georgiadis. He described the situation as \u201cdifficult and and at a dead end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Athens has seen a sharp rise in private vehicles, with 100,000 more registered between 2022 and 2023. Meanwhile, legal parking remains scarce, with just 3,463 spaces for visitors and steep garage fees exceeding \u20ac12 per hour.<\/p>\n<p>Despite penalties \u2013 including two-month license suspensions for blocking disabled ramps \u2013 violations persist. In 2024, municipal police recorded 471,785 traffic offenses, with over 16,600 cases leading to license or registration suspensions.<\/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\/1260366\/parking-woes-escalate-in-greek-capital\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Yiannis Liakos\/Intime News] Illegal parking in central Athens remains a major problem despite intensified enforcement efforts, city officials say. In just 12 days in January, municipal police issued 5,270 tickets for illegal parking, with over 2,100 violations involving cars blocking sidewalks, according to Deputy Mayor Thomas Georgiadis. He described the situation as \u201cdifficult and and &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Parking woes escalate in Greek capital\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/01\/parking-woes-escalate-in-greek-capital\/#more-3071\" aria-label=\"Read more about Parking woes escalate in Greek capital\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/854c0473f82835c983e52424a3feaa51_4425667-1-960x600.jpg?v=1738358430","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}