{"id":803,"date":"2024-12-01T13:30:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T13:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/01\/here-it-is-thessaloniki-gets-its-metro\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T13:30:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T13:30:38","slug":"here-it-is-thessaloniki-gets-its-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/01\/here-it-is-thessaloniki-gets-its-metro\/","title":{"rendered":"Here it is!\u2019 Thessaloniki gets its metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1255031\">\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\/2024\/11\/Thessaloniki_metro_intime-1-320x200.jpg?v=1732979965\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Thessaloniki_metro_intime-1.jpg?v=1732979964\" alt=\"Here it is!\u2019 Thessaloniki gets its metro\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Thessaloniki_metro_intime-1-960x600.jpg?v=1732979965\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>[Yiannis Papanikos\/InTime News]\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Thessaloniki residents braved the bluster of Storm Bora to welcome the much-anticipated metro to their city on its inaugural run on Saturday afternoon, touring the stations, admiring the exhibitions of antiquities found during its excavations and riding the trains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great day,\u201d Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said at the metro\u2019s official opening, before pushing the button to commence service. \u201cI am sure that, until the very last moment, many people in the city did not believe it would happen. Yet, here it is!\u201d he said at a ceremony attended by President Katerina Sakellaropoulou and dozens of other officials.<\/p>\n<p>In celebration of the Thessaloniki metro\u2019s launch, rides will be free through Tuesday, after which a single ticket will cost 0.60 euros. Service will run from 5.30 a.m. until 12.30 past midnight on weekdays and until 2 a.m. on weekends.\u00a0<\/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\/economy\/1255031\/here-it-is-thessaloniki-gets-its-metro\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Yiannis Papanikos\/InTime News]\u00a0 Thessaloniki residents braved the bluster of Storm Bora to welcome the much-anticipated metro to their city on its inaugural run on Saturday afternoon, touring the stations, admiring the exhibitions of antiquities found during its excavations and riding the trains. \u201cThis is a great day,\u201d Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said at the metro\u2019s &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Here it is!\u2019 Thessaloniki gets its metro\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/01\/here-it-is-thessaloniki-gets-its-metro\/#more-803\" aria-label=\"Read more about Here it is!\u2019 Thessaloniki gets its metro\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":804,"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\/2024\/11\/Thessaloniki_metro_intime-1-960x600.jpg?v=1732979965","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","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\/803","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=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}