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The Metro Got Closer to My Home!
It will probably never reach my isolated neighborhood, but coming almost halfway from the port of Piraeus still helps
On 10 October 2022 no less than three brand new Metro stations got the inaugurating champagne bottle in Athens. All three are in the wider area I live, and one of them is within a walking distance.
Well, kind of. It is ~2.5 km / 1.5 miles away. It feels closer though. The two ‘old’ Metro stations of my header image are the ones I’ve been using whenever I want to go toward the center of Athens. Before those two opened a couple of years ago I had to go via the port of Piraeus and get its old (non-Metro) electric train that runs like a turtle on wheels.
Apart from being slow, going from Amfiali -my neighborhood- to Piraeus meant a lot of traffic during the rush hours in particular, while packed like sardines in buses -even with Covid- whenever a bus driver did not bother to come at all, and super expensive double taxi fares late at night whenever I lost the last bus or did not even arrive.
After those two ‘old’ Metro stations opened I could bypass Piraeus but there was still the problem of how to go from Amfiali to…
