Greece: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Antiparos has one driving restriction on our books: the Ζώνη αποκλειστικής κυκλοφορίας πεζών και ΑμεΑ επί της παραλιακής οδού… (limited traffic zone). What is a limited traffic zone?
Sources last read on 2026-09-23, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-22.
Antiparos is a small Cycladic island, and the road this record is about is the seafront road at the port of its one town — the strip a driver coming off a boat meets first.
A decision gazetted on 10 September 2026 turns a length of it into a zone reserved for pedestrians and for people with disabilities, and the striking thing about the rule, for anyone used to Greek town-centre regulations, is what it leaves out: there are no hours. No opening time, no closing time, no season, no weekday.
Where the corpus's other Greek pedestrian schemes print a window beside every street — Hersonissos closes its eight segments «από 01-05 έως 31.10 και από ώρες από 18:00 έως 05:00» — this one prints none at all, so the zone reads as permanent and the answer to "when can I drive down there" is simply never. 🔑 The extent is published with unusual precision and unusual narrowness at the same time.
The decision gives no street name and no map. It gives two survey points in the Greek national grid, ΕΓΣΑ 87 — 596306 / 4099552 marked «Αρχή», the start, and 596205 / 4099801 marked «Τέλος», the end — and the signs to be planted at each.
Those two numbers are 101 metres apart east to west and 249 metres apart north to south on the grid, which is a stretch of roughly 270 metres of one road: that is our arithmetic on the published figures, not a distance the municipality states. ⚠️ Nobody is named as exempt.
Unlike Hersonissos, which lists four categories of driver who may still enter, this decision lists none — but it does order sign Ρ-55, and the Highway Code writes the exceptions into the sign itself: «απαγορευμένης της διέλευσης άλλων εκτός πεζών, οχημάτων άμεσης ανάγκης και οχημάτων για την είσοδο - έξοδο σε παρόδιες ιδιοκτησίες».
Pedestrians, emergency vehicles, and vehicles going in and out of a property on that road. A visitor is none of those, and there is no permit, no day pass and no charge of any kind anywhere in the act. ⚠️ The most important caveat is about time, and it is the publisher's own.
The decision's third condition says the measures take effect «από την τοποθέτηση των οικείων πινακίδων σήμανσης» — from the moment the signs go up — and it does not say when that is. So this record cannot tell you the day the zone started.
It can tell you the act exists, that it has been gazetted, and that the day the signs appear is the day it bites; if you are there and the posts are bare, the act has not caught up with the ground yet, and if there is a Ρ-55 sign facing you, it has. 🚨 **And this is not the only pedestrianisation on Antiparos.** A second decision of the same authority, gazetted three weeks earlier on 19 August 2026, amends a 2021 act — «την τροποποίηση της υπ’ αρ.
32813/09-07-2021 απόφασης Αποκεντρωμένης Διοίκησης Αιγαίου (υπ’ αρ. 20/2021 απόφαση του Δημοτικού Συμβουλίου του Δήμου Αντιπάρου)» — «μόνο ως προς την περίοδο ισχύος της περιοδικής πεζοδρόμησης, η οποία διαμορφώνεται από 15 Ιανουαρίου έως 15 Δεκεμβρίου εκάστου έτους», and leaves the rest of it standing.
So somewhere on this island a *periodic* pedestrianisation now runs from 15 January to 15 December every year — eleven months. 🚫 **Which streets, and at what hours, this project cannot tell you**, and it is important to say so rather than let this page imply the seafront zone is the whole story: the 2021 act it amends was never published in the gazette, the amendment reproduces none of it, and antiparos.gr answers HTTP 403 behind Cloudflare to the home page and to robots.txt alike.
What is published is a season without a map. This record covers the port seafront zone and nothing else.