Alstom has delivered the first two of the 25 Citadis X05 trams ordered by Attiko Metro, the urban transport authority of Athens. Credit: © Alstom. Alstom has ...

The tram, which will link seaside venues with the city, will not go all the way to the heart of Athens from Aug. 10 to Sept. 15, getting only as close as a subway station just over a mile from the ...

Athens has put the latest stage of its Olympic transport plan into operation with the opening of a new tram line. Hundreds of Athenians crowded stations along the route to cheer the first carriage on ...

“We are very happy, first because the 24-hour operation of the metro on Saturdays was implemented, and second because thousands of passengers embraced it,” said a Tram & Metro official. Athens ...

On a sweltering morning in mid-July, several hundred Athenians gathered in the hope of defeating an old stereotype. The Athens tram–shut down in 1960 by a government that thought mass transit was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Metro, urban rail and tram workers in Athens have walked off the job for 24 hours. They are angry about legislation that would ...

Athens's new tram had a successful first test run yesterday, moving from central Athens to the southern seaside suburbs where two major Olympic complexes are located. The $380 million project had been ...

Thousands of riders packed Athens's new tram yesterday as it made its first trip through the Greek capital before next month's Olympics. Designed primarily to ease chronic congestion on the capital's ...