Mundane headaches
It doesn't affect me as much, personally, because I can get from my apartment to the office with shoe leather, but mass transit in Athens is currently a mess.
Entirely aside from the rate hikes - yesterday, an integrated 90-minute ticket for bus and metro was one euro; today, it's €1.40, and single-trip bus tickets are €1.20 - almost the whole system's on strike today. The only modes that aren't on strike at the moment are taxis, cars, and feet.
And Athens isn't concentrated like New York City, where just about everywhere is walking distance if you've got the time. It's spread out, and a lot of people live out in the suburbs. The metro's making its way out to the suburbs, and bus service gets out there, but ... that doesn't matter if they're all shut down.
And it's going to be like that for most of the week. Apparently. Some of the strikes had been scheduled, others were a last-minute total surprise.
Some days, it's a pain to live in this town.
Entirely aside from the rate hikes - yesterday, an integrated 90-minute ticket for bus and metro was one euro; today, it's €1.40, and single-trip bus tickets are €1.20 - almost the whole system's on strike today. The only modes that aren't on strike at the moment are taxis, cars, and feet.
And Athens isn't concentrated like New York City, where just about everywhere is walking distance if you've got the time. It's spread out, and a lot of people live out in the suburbs. The metro's making its way out to the suburbs, and bus service gets out there, but ... that doesn't matter if they're all shut down.
And it's going to be like that for most of the week. Apparently. Some of the strikes had been scheduled, others were a last-minute total surprise.
Some days, it's a pain to live in this town.