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Ilioupoli has one driving restriction on our books: the Ωράριο τροφοδοσίας των καταστημάτων (super markets) του Δήμου… (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.
Ilioupoli is one of eight Attica municipalities timetabled by a single decision of the Regional Council of Attica, and its case is four sentences long. Between 19:00 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 19:00, 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. One carve-out is written into Ilioupoli's own case and it is not in every neighbour's: shops that have their own loading and unloading space, and so do not burden the public space, are exempt from keeping the loading timetable at all.
Above that 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. Two things about the shape are worth noticing before reading Athens across into Ilioupoli.
The window is the opposite way round from the capital's — Athens opens at 21:00, Ilioupoli at 19:00 — and Ilioupoli's case names «τα καταστήματα (super markets) της πόλης» where the Athens case names businesses, supermarkets and other shops. The threshold, though, is the same measurement in both: gross weight, not useful load.