Greece: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Aigio has one driving restriction on our books: the Έγκριση της υπ’ αρ. 52/2025 απόφασης του Δημοτικού Συμβουλίου… (limited traffic zone). What is a limited traffic zone?
Sources last read on 2026-09-25, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-24.
Aigio is the second town of Achaea, on the Gulf of Corinth about 40 km east of Patras, and a place a driver meets by choice rather than by accident: the old town sits on a shelf above the harbour and the shopping streets run across it.
On 15 May 2025 the Decentralised Administration of the Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian approved decision 52/2025 of the Aigialeia municipal council and pedestrianised five named stretches of that shelf, under article 52 §1 of the Highway Code. 🔑 The five, with the act's own end points: οδός Κλεομένους Οικονόμου from Βασιλέως Κωνσταντίνου to Ερμού — the central street, and the one the whole scheme is named after; οδός Ασημάκη Φωτήλα from Βασιλέως Κωνσταντίνου to Ταξιαρχών; οδός Βαλφούρ from Ανδρέα Λόντου to Ασημάκη Φωτήλα; οδός Ανδριανοπούλου from Ανδρέα Λόντου to Κλεομένους Οικονόμου; and οδός Γερμανού from Κλεομένους Οικονόμου to Πολυχρονιάδου.
Two further measures in the same act are not closures and are recorded here as what they are: a contraflow lane reserved for urban buses on οδός Βασιλέως Κωνσταντίνου between Κλεομένους Οικονόμου and Κολοκοτρώνη, and a stopping and parking ban on both sides of that same stretch. 🔑 What makes this page unusual in this corpus's Greek set is not the closure but the second document.
A Greek pedestrianisation order almost never prints the terms of access — who may still drive in, when a shop may be supplied, what a delivery lorry may weigh — because the Highway Code leaves those to a municipal «κανονισμός λειτουργίας», and this project has been stopped by exactly that gap three times: Nafpaktia's regulation is not obtainable at all, Patras's is inside an unpublished technical report, and Skala's sits on a portal closed by its own robots file.
Aigialeia published its own. Council decision 10/2025 (ΑΔΑ: 9Β43Ω6Χ-314) approves the «Κανονισμός Κυκλοφοριακής Οργάνωσης και Στάθμευσης - Κανονισμός Λειτουργίας Πεζοδρόμων Δήμου Αιγιαλείας» as a PDF on the municipality's website, and it is read in full below. 🚨 Two limits, and both are the publisher's rather than this project's.
The order commences «από την τοποθέτηση των οικείων πινακίδων σήμανσης ή των διαγραμμίσεων στο οδόστρωμα» — when the signs or the road markings go in — and nobody has published the day that happened, so `effective_from` is null and this page cannot tell you whether the bollards are up.
And the act contradicts itself about the town plan: recital 30 says council decision 345/2024 «κινήθηκε η διαδικασία τροποποίησης του σχεδίου πόλεως Αιγίου», that the amendment procedure was started, while recitals 32 and 42 say the same decision 345/2024 is the one by which «εγκρίθηκε η τροποποίηση του σχεδίου πόλεως του Αιγίου για την πεζοδρόμηση των οδικών τμημάτων» — that it was approved.
Both sentences are in the same eight-page issue. No presidential planning decree for it was found in the gazette.