Athens Metro: A small miracle in Kolonaki!

Behind the green-decorated protective sheets of the construction site, one of the most important projects for Athens is developing - the " Kolonaki Station" of Line 4 of the Athens Metro.

AMNA revealed the construction site of AVAX at Kolonaki Square Metro station. According to company executives, it is one of the 15 stations of Line 4, the largest public project currently in Greece.

Line 4 starts from Katehaki and will pass through Zografou, Kaisariani, Kolonaki, Exarchia, Dikastiria Evelpidon, and Kypseli before reaching Galatsi and Alsos Veikou.

The project

The excavation of AVAX Group has reached 28 metres, while the final excavation depth will reach 35 metres. The area of ​​the pit exceeds 2,000 square metres, while the area of ​​the construction site is four acres.

Thirty-five workers work in this large Kolonaki pit, which is supervised from a 45-metre-high construction crane.

According to AVAX, up to 500 cubic metres of soil are removed every day, while by the end of the work, 68,000 cubic metres of soil will have been removed. To date, 53,000 cubic metres have been removed.

In fact, Kolonaki station will be connected by a tunnel that will pass under Lines 2 and 3, which are already in operation.

After the so-called preliminary works, the contractor consortium mechanism got to work last April in Kolonaki Square.

Although the station was handed over to AVAX ten months after the scheduled date, the lost time has almost been made up, and the project's development is impressive.

Appeals and other pending matters are the reason why 6 of the 15 construction sites where the same number of stations will be built have yet to be handed over to the consortium building the project.

The opening and construction of the tunnel are proceeding at a very satisfactory rate, as reported by the same officials. By 2026, the two state-of-the-art AVAX subways will have completed the 12.8 km of the route.

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