Greece: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Agios Nikolaos has one driving restriction on our books: the Έγκριση της υπ’ αρ. 130/2024 απόφασης του Δημοτικού Συμβουλίου Δήμου… (heavy vehicle ban). What is a heavy vehicle ban?
Sources last read on 2026-09-25, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-25.
Agios Nikolaos is the harbour town of eastern Crete, built around a lake that opens into the Gulf of Mirabello, and οδός Καστ. Μιραμπέλλο is the street that runs along that harbour front.
On 19 July 2024 the Αποκεντρωμένη Διοίκηση Κρήτης gazetted the approval of the town council's decision 130/2024, and its fifth operative point is a single sentence: «Απαγόρευση εισόδου σε οχήματα συνολικού βάρους άνω των 3,5τ. στην οδό Καστ. Μιραμπέλλο» — no entry for vehicles whose total weight exceeds 3.5 tonnes.
That sentence is what this record carries, and it is carried because it is the one measure on the page that is complete without anything the publisher withheld: a named street, a named threshold, a named vehicle property. 🚨 THE PAGE'S CENTRAL TRAP, AND THE REASON TO READ THIS PARAGRAPH BEFORE THE REST.
The same act's FIRST operative point announces something far more interesting — «Εποχιακή / περιοδική απαγόρευσης κυκλοφορίας οχημάτων ΙΧ από τις 18:00 έως τις 24:00 και από 15 Ιουνίου έως 15 Σεπτεμβρίου κάθε έτους», a seasonal evening ban on private cars, renewing itself every year.
It reads like the headline and the gazette's own table of contents treats it as one. 🚫 It is not in this record as a rule, because the sentence finishes «στα τμήματα των οδών που περιγράφονται στην παραπάνω (26) σχετική μελέτη» — on the street sections described in the traffic study — and that study is not published.
The act says where its originals are kept: «στα αρχεία της Αποκεντρωμένης Διοίκησης Κρήτης (ΔΙΠΕΧΩΣ) και στη Διεύθυνση Μελετών του Δήμου Αγίου Νικολάου». A driver reading the gazette cannot learn which streets close at six in the evening in July. ⚠️ So do not read the 18:00–24:00 clock or the 15 June – 15 September season as belonging to the weight ban.
They belong to a different measure in the same decision, and the weight ban carries no clock at all. 🔑 The town's whole scheme, as gazetted, is six points and only the fifth is a restriction of the kind this corpus publishes. Points 2 and 3 reverse the direction of two street sections, point 4 forbids stopping and parking along one of them, and point 6 settles which of two crossing streets has priority.
Those are ordinary traffic-layout measures, not access restrictions, and none of them is claimed here.