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KTEL buses already claim a “hat” for the buses that will be available in Athens, after they disappeared from the periphery along with their drivers who were suspended! Αλ Alchemies with bus numbers cannot fill the main gap, which is the lack of drivers.
With drivers who … have been suspended and useless buses they want to temporarily cover the regional and inter-municipal routes of Attica that the OASA / OSY provides to the KTEL. The administrations of the KTEL city buses in the region have been prepared for a long time, after they were subsidized for the first time with 745,000 euros to install integrated electronic ticket systems in their city buses -at the proposal of the federation in February-, they recently reduced the routes in their cities and established a large part of the suspended drivers.
Of these buses, which are already missing from routes in the region, the prime minister announced that he will bring 100 buses to Attica sooner, and will pay for them with a “hat” (!).
It is revealed by the secretary general. of the public buses of POAS and president of the urban KTEL of Larissa, Michalis Sakellariou, who declared to be ready for a few hours to help, “for as long as necessary”, with city buses of several KTEL buses of the region (from Larissa , Patras, etc.) “provided, of course, the cost of this project is covered, which is obviously higher than the existing agreements due to the short period of operation of the lines and the costs of bus transportation to Athens.”
M. Sakellariou, declares … willing to help for a few hours, provided, of course, the additional costs are covered.
25 drivers from Patras are already on standby along with 12 18-meter modular meters of TEI routes that are temporarily on, another 10 buses from Larissa, while “availability” for emergency pockets indicates other urban KTELs; It is not excluded to see buses even from Crete or Corfu.
Questions about parking, telematics, maintenance and logistics from drivers who are unaware of the routes remain unanswered.
Numbers
Regarding how many buses run in Greater Athens, we hear … monsters. Another said it received 850 buses, another that 200 were repaired and the operating fleet was increased to 1,050 or 1,100 in quarantine. In reality, however, there could even be 1,350 buses (after minor repairs) and up to 250 trolleybuses, if there were the political will and … the respective drivers.
Regardless of what you hear about bus numbers, with 2,200 active drivers, up to 770-780 buses, and 150 trolleybuses (2.4 drivers per vehicle for trips, breaks, and licenses) hit the streets in September, albeit often in winter up to 250 unmanned shifts are recorded for various reasons.
In August, with the program “Verano II”, less than 600 premiered and a little more in the two months of June-July, with “Verano I”. The approximately 500 drivers that will be hired by the end of the year will help the circulation of another 200 vehicles.
The data shows that there are buses and trolleybuses (at least 100 operating trolleybuses and 300 “prefabricated” buses remain parked) and the announced tender will not add anything to the service of the passenger public. But obviously there is a plan to reduce the stock of used urban buses on the market and proceed with the transfer of subsidized routes to individuals.
As for the 300 used buses that we will rent, at the annual cost of 10.1 million euros (plus VAT) that was announced, we will have to add the cost of the subsidies to KTEL (about 25 million euros per year), that was not announced. yet, but it has been budgeted by the General State Accounting Office and voted on by Parliament. The first section was approved last Friday.
With a total of 140 million euros that the “personal” plan for used cars will cost us in four years, we could buy at least 600 new diesel buses or 300 new diesel buses and 110 new electric buses.
Magic?
