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Galatsi has one driving restriction on our books: the Ωράριο τροφοδοσίας των καταστημάτων (super markets) του Δήμου Γαλατσίου… (heavy vehicle ban). What is a heavy vehicle ban?
Sources last read on 2026-09-21, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-20.
Galatsi is one of eight Attica municipalities timetabled by a single decision of the Regional Council of Attica, and its case is two sentences long — the shortest of the eight. Between 20:00 and 07:00 the next morning, any type of goods vehicle may resupply the shops of the town.
For the rest of the day — 07:00 to 20:00, every day of the week — that resupply is to be carried out with vehicles of gross weight up to two tonnes, which means a heavier goods vehicle has no daytime hour in which the decision lets it deliver here. There is no charge, no permit, no sticker and no emission class anywhere in the instrument: the Regional Council wrote a clock and a weight.
If you are driving a car none of it reaches you at any hour, and neither does a van that is simply being driven rather than used to resupply a shop. What Galatsi does NOT have is worth saying as plainly as what it has, because two of its neighbours in the same decision do.
Ilioupoli's case and Irakleio Attikis's case both exempt shops that have their own loading and unloading space from keeping the timetable at all; the Galatsi case contains no such sentence, and this record does not import one.
Above the case sit the six exemptions that run through the whole instrument, of which one is about the vehicle rather than the errand — a purely electric vehicle of up to 2.5 tonnes gross is outside the restrictions.
The decision is not seasonal and not annual; it runs from publication until a newer decision is issued, and two supplements in 2025 amended it without replacing it, which is how we know it is still the operative text. Galatsi's window is also the latest-closing of the four suburban cases: 20:00 rather than the 19:00 of Ilioupoli, Dafni-Ymittos and Irakleio Attikis, and an hour earlier than the capital's 21:00.