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The Athens subway network Attiko MetroThe Athens Metro (subway) Attiko Metro has 3 Lines the old one Line M1 (ISAP) that starts from Piraeus and ends in Kifissia and the new Athens Metro lines M2 that starts from Agios Antonios and ends to Agios Dimitrios and the line M3.that starts from Egaleo and ends at Doukissis Plakentias from there you can take the Athens suburban railway (Proastiakos) to the Airport.There are parking spaces in Line M2 at the stations of Egaleo , Eleonas, Keramikos, Katehaki, Ethniki Amyna, Nomismatokopio, Halandri and Plakentias ,at the stations of Line M3 there are parking space at the station of Sygrou (Fix).
The Athens Metro wagons and stations are very clean and modern and you wont find the usual graffiti vandalism on both of them. Ticket prices: one way ticket 0.80 € , for unlimited use in all Athens transport for 1 and half hour you can get a ticket of 1 € , day tickets cost 3 € and weekly tickets 10 € . From the Athens airport the one way ticket cost 6 € while a return ticket within 48 hours cost 10 € . If you are 2 you can get a group one way ticket for 10 € .In Every station there automatic ticket machines where you can get your ticket, make sure to validate it on the entrances before you enter the train.
The new Athens subway network network and the extensions Click the map to enlarge
Older map of Athens Metro
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History: The first Athens metro line -HSAP- linking Athens to Piraeus
had steam powered trains and it was opened for the first time in
February 1869 . The company during this time was called Rails of Athens
Piraeus. The line became electric in 1904. In the year 1926 the company
operating the railway and company operating the tram are cooperating and
they create two new companies, the Electric Transport Company and the
Greek Electric Railways. The first took over the management and
operation of the tram lines and railway line Athens - Piraeus and the
second took over the obligations of the Rails Athens Piraeus and the
expansion and completion of the work of the railway Athens - Piraeus.
The company HSAP established in 1976, when the rails Athens Piraeus
became property of the Greek government. In
1996 started the
construction of two lines of the Athens Metro in order to avoid
additional burden on the traffic problem in Athens and to decongest the
capital. The two new metro lines (2 and 3), known as the red and the
blue line, start operating in 2000.Before the Olympics of 2004 all
stations of the old line 1 were upgraded and modernised. Today, the old
Piraeus Kifisia line 1 of HSAP and the Attiko Metro lines 2 and 3
serving 51 stations
