With a 5.6% increase in average daily vehicle traffic and a 9.1% increase in revenue, the first half of 2024 has closed for Attiki Odos.
The motorway, which will soon return to the public sector and then be assigned to its new manager, in the first six months of this year, according to information, had revenues of 113.2 million, against 103.7 million euros, while the average daily traffic was 271.4 thousand vehicles compared to 256.8 thousand in the first half of 2023.
The months with the highest traffic were February (14.6% increase in average traffic) and April (15.9%) with revenue growing 18.5% and 16% respectively.
Meanwhile, the current Attica Road concession contract with the concessionaire, the Aktor Concessions – Avax consortium, expires at the beginning of October and as the government has made clear, it will not be extended.
This means the highway will be public for a few months.
According to estimates by GEK Terna President and CEO Giorgos Peristeris and the leadership of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Attiki Odos will be handed over to the construction group at the end of the first quarter of 2025.
It is likely that the joint venture that currently operates the road axis will continue to do so for a fee until it is handed over to GEK Terna which, as is known, was declared the contractor for the reconcession of the Attica Road with a bid of 3.27 billion euros.
Based on the procedure followed to sign the new concession contract with the contractor for the operation, maintenance and use of Estrada Ática, at the end of June TAIPED (Public-Private Property Development Fund) sent the process to the Audit Court for pre-contractual supervision of the competition.
It should be noted that with the new concession, tolls for cars will be reduced from 2.8 euros to 2.5 euros.