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Taxi tariffs in Greece will increase with up to 25%, because the Ministry of transportation and infrastructure decided not to change the agreed upon increases of the previous government. According to the contract the day and night tariffs of the taxis will reach €1.05. Taxi drivers had managed to get another increase as well, which will come into effect on May 2010. According to sources from the ministry, most likely the second increase will not come into effect. On the other hand taxi drivers note that increasing tariffs will force many of their clients to choose alternative cheaper means of transportation.

Meanwhile the work meetings of Dimitris Repas and Nikos Sifounakis from the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure with representatives of transport associations in Athens, are continuing. As it became clear, among the discussed topics was also the route of the busses, which right now is 60km and after a possible decision they can become 100km. it is also a possibility to make changes to the already existing bus routes in Athens, which service not only the busses but the trolleys as well. Right now the problematic routes for the public transportation in Athens are the roads around the center and the main boulevards Kifisias and Mesogion, which have high traffic and cars enter the bus lanes all the time.

For some period of time the taxis were given a green light to use the bus lanes, which led to dangerous situations on the roads and the experiment was stopped.