{"id":3505,"date":"2026-05-01T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3505"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:58:00","slug":"may-day-exodus-increased-traffic-on-national-roads-queues-at-the-elefsina-toll-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3505","title":{"rendered":"May Day Exodus: increased traffic on National Roads &#8211; Queues at the Elefsina toll (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<b> exodus of excursionists<\/b> gradually began yesterday afternoon ahead of the three-day <strong>Protomay<\/strong>, with <strong>traffic <\/strong>increasing significantly today on<b> highways<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>Already, <b>extraordinary routes<\/b>from <strong>Ktel <\/strong>of <b>Athens<\/b> to <b>Thessaloniki<\/b>, while due to the <b>strike<\/b>at <b>ports<\/b> it is estimated that many excursionists are choosing to travel by road, further burdening the road network.<\/p>\n<p>A significant increase in <b>traffic<\/b> has been recorded since early morning on the <strong>different roads of Elefsina<\/strong>, where the flow of vehicles has thickened considerably. The flow of vehicles has increased significantly, with around <b>30 cars per lane<\/b> passing through the toll, but waiting for a relatively short time, around 1 to 2 minutes, before continuing their journey to the <b>Peloponnese<\/b> and <b>Western Greece<\/b>.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">   <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>As ERT reports, while earlier the situation was smoother, as the hour progresses traffic is becoming more and more <b>dense<\/b>. May Day, combined with <b>weather conditions<\/b> that are not conducive to multi-day getaways, seems to be driving many excursionists to <b>short<\/b>, mostly one-day excursions.<\/p>\n<p>Families and day trippers are choosing to take advantage of the day for a <b>short getaway,<\/b> with many estimated to return either in the evening or tomorrow morning to enjoy the rest of the <b>weekend<\/b> in the peace and quiet of their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic on <b>highways<\/b> is expected to remain <b>increased<\/b>throughout the day, as the exodus of holidaymakers continues gradually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started gradually from yesterday afternoon the exit of excursionists in view of the three days of May Day, with the traffic to increase significantly &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}