Athens Empties for Easter as 85,000 Vehicles Head for the Villages

Nearly 85,000 vehicles streamed out of Athens on Holy Thursday as Greeks began the country's largest annual migration, flooding highways and filling intercity buses to capacity despite a 10 percent rise in ticket prices from a year ago. Traffic police recorded the outbound surge between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., with the bulk of the exodus heading south.  Some 48,000 cars traveled the Athens-Corinth National Highway, causing significant delays near the Elefsina and Megara toll booths before congesti...

By NEWSROOM IEFIMERIDA.GR