Andreas Syggrou Avenue | The longest absolute straight line of Attica with a length of 4.4 kilometer

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Andreas Syggrou Avenue | The longest absolute straight line of Attica with a length of 4.4 kilometers

We are in the heart of Athens under the Acropolis and more specifically at the pillars of Olympian Zeus, from where the longest absolute straight line in Athens begins, on Andreas Syggrou Avenue. At the same time, it is the only road in Greece that in some parts has up to five traffic lanes in each direction.

Tens of thousands of cars use it daily to head from Athens to Poseidonos Avenue or to Piraeus and vice versa. Its length exceeds 4 kilometers and more specifically it is 4.4 km. the descent stream towards Poseidonos-Piraeus and a little less the ascent stream towards Athens with a length of 4.35 km.

The conception of the idea for the construction of a modern road took place at the end of the 19th century during the prime ministership of Harilaos Trikoupis. The construction of the boulevard began in 1898, 126 years ago and it was the landmark year of this characteristic street of Athens.The implementation of the plans was carried out by an army engineer, Ioannis Genisarlis. At that time, Syngrou Avenue certainly had nothing to do with its current image. Endless fields and old houses lay to the right and left of the road.

The boulevard was built exactly in the same straight line where in ancient times there was a road with a wider width and in the first years after independence it was a carriage road, which met the needs of transporting people and goods, to and from the port of Faliro.

A large part of the costs of the project was covered by the banker and politician Andreas Syngros, who also gave the name of the first major motorway of Athens. In October 1904, the project was auctioned for 135,000 drachmas to plant trees on the boulevard. In 1901, the new road was laid out and work began. According to N. Gazi, the length would be about 5 kilometers and the width 28 meters. Of these, 16 meters wide were occupied by the two sidewalks and 12 meters was the main street. In its original form, Andreas Syggrou Avenue is divided into two sections. One, the one that was towards the city from the bridge of Ilissos and the other to the Faliric coast. The cost of the project amounts to 750,000 drachmas, while approximately 460,000 drachmas were spent to compensate the expropriations of the owners’ fields.

At the end of November 1904, the new great boulevard of Athens was put into circulation and for its sake Kostis Palamas hastened to praise it with the following words: his feet in the waves of the Saronic, filled the city of Athens with a one-piece magnificence”, he wrote disappointedly. He invited the Greeks to walk “on this artistic avenue” and enjoy “a land of new and dreamy nature”! He invited the Greeks to walk “on this artistic avenue” and enjoy “a land of new and dreamy nature”!

The most important interventions took place in 1954, with the first road reconstruction works, and in the summer of 1959, the avenue’s electric lighting network was inaugurated. In the spring of 1979, the then government of Constantinos Karamanlis was in a creative frenzy, so in May the agreement of Greece’s entry into the European Economic Community (EOK) would be signed. For the ceremony, the French president Valéry Giscard D’Estaing would arrive in Athens, Karamanlis had planned a grand reception that included transporting the French president in an open car, so that they could greet the people who had gathered. The procession would also pass through Syngrou Avenue, which needed a lot of renovation. The new asphalt paving was done in a time of 24 hours, a record for Greek data. Now the road had changed shape and the cars of the Athenians did not jump into the potholes.

The transformation of Syngrou into an expressway began in the 1980s, and for the needs of the project, a total of seven junctions and 10 underpasses were built.
Being part of National Highway 91 which is also the largest national highway in Attica, Syngrou Avenue is classified as an expressway with a maximum speed limit of 90 km/h and this means that as a street it is a step below the highway.

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