A new subway system, long dogged by archaeological and financial issues, was finally inaugurated in the Greek city of Thessaloniki by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the end of November 2024, more than 10 years later than planned.

Phase one of Greece’s first driverless metro, featuring Hitachi Rail's digital signalling technology, has been inaugurated in Thessaloniki. The metro will reduce road traffic by 56,000 cars daily and cut 77,

GREECE: The Thessaloniki metro opened on November 30, 18 years after construction began. The first phase runs 9·6 km through twin bore tunnels from Thessaloniki New Railway Station to Nea Elvetia with 13 stations and an end-to-end journey time of 18 min.

It caused untold commotion, decades of disruption and — among historians and archeologists — controversy and despair, but at midday on Saturday, the antiquities-rich subterranean world of Thessaloniki opened to a world of driverless trains and high-tech automation with the inauguration of its long-awaited subway.

The long-anticipated Thessaloniki Metro officially opens to the public today, marking a milestone with its unique integration of ancient artifacts into the modern infrastructure.

Thessaloniki's metro system, now open, uniquely combines modern transport with ancient history by showcasing archaeological finds discovered during its construction. Despite delays from the discoveries,

Thirty-eight years after the initial idea for a metro in Thessaloniki, the project was handed over to the public on November 30!