Attiki Odos Motorway, Greece
The motorway construction was started in 1996–97, cost approximately $1.8bn and was opened in March 2001 to partly serve the new Eleftherios Venizelos International airport. Some sections of the motorway were not completely finished until June 2004.
It offers three traffic lanes in each direction, one emergency lane, 32 multi-level interchanges and hundreds of overpasses and underpasses. It is staffed with specially trained emergency units and uses the most modern equipment for incident detection, providing the users of the motorway with top quality services.
It is a cutting edge motorway in Europe, meeting the highest design standards for high-speed toll motorways. This enables a safe journey the entire length of Attica without the need for traffic lights, connecting more than 30 districts in Attica.
