Olympic Arrangements in Patras

Updated: 2004-06-29 09:13

Patras will be hosting the Football Tournament from 11 August to 23 August 2004 in which 22 teams will be taking part. Measures and special arrangements to apply in the Olympic City of Patras from 6 August to 24 August 2004 have been worked out by OCOG ATHENS 2004, in cooperation with all agencies involved: central administration, local government and representatives of local organisations.

The purpose of the measures is to provide the best possible services to visitors to the city and to the footballers playing in the matches, safeguarding in parallel the normal daily life of the city’s residents. This is intended to make Patras, with its Olympic operations and Olympic sport, a magnet to visitors and residents alike.

Arrangements

For regulating traffic in the city the following transport management policy will be implemented:

Primary Olympic Routes will be designated for rapid transport of the Olympic Family and spectators.

A Controlled Access and Circulation Zone (CACZ) will be designated around the Pampeloponnisiako Stadium and will include the following streets: Seferi, Pelopos, Patron-Clauss and Diakoniari. Permanent residents will be supplied with special accreditations, allowing them to enter this area.

Existing stopping & parking prohibitions will be stepped up in areas of Olympic interest.

Special traffic arrangements will be in force in the area around the Port of Patras, and the Araxos main provincial road of Araxos in the Municipality of Larisos.

Along the entire length of Olympic Routes, stopping & parking prohibitions will apply, with stringent enforcement and control by the Police.

‘Park and ride’ facilities will be created in the Patras Port and Carrefour areas.

Bus line Νο. 7, which crosses the CACZ along Patron-Clauss, will be rerouted. A plan is also developed to divert traffic that would otherwise travel within the CACZ.

Taxi parking spaces will be provided near the Pampeloponnisiako Stadium on the edge of the CACZ.

Public Transport will operate according to the normal daily schedule. In parallel, ATHENS 2004 and the Achaia Urban Bus Company are planning to establish specific lines for the use of spectators and persons working in the Pampeloponnisiako Stadium.