Greece: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Nestorio has one driving restriction on our books: the The triple sign at the junction of Άξονας 1 with the square of Άνω… (limited traffic zone). What is a limited traffic zone?
Sources last read on 2026-09-27, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-27.
Nestorio is a mountain village in the Kastoria regional unit of Western Macedonia, and the road that climbs from its school past the town hall to the upper square is closed to cars. Not to lorries — to cars. 🚨 THIS IS THE ONLY RESTRICTION IN THIS CORPUS THAT RUNS THE OTHER WAY.
Everywhere else a town bars the heavy vehicle and lets the private car through; here the municipality barred the private car and kept the road for buses and lorries.
The measure is the first operative item of the act: «Η τοποθέτηση τριπλής πινακίδας στη συμβολή του άξονα 1 με την πλατεία: Ρ-9 (απαγόρευση εισόδου σε μηχανοκίνητα οχήματα), Πρ-16θ (επιτρέπονται μόνο λεωφορεία) και Πρ-16ι (επιτρέπονται μόνο φορτηγά)». Άξονας 1 is named in the act by the buildings along it rather than by a street name — «τμήμα οδού AB (δρόμος Γυμνάσιο - Δημαρχείο - Πλατεία)», the Gymnasium–Town Hall–Square road — and the same item puts Ρ-28 and Ρ-27 turn bans on its side streets «προκειμένου να υπάρχει υποχρεωτική πορεία των οχημάτων προς την πλατεία του Άνω Νεστορίου», so that traffic is funnelled towards the square. 🔑 THE AUTHORITY SAYS WHY, AND IT SAID IT WHILE REFUSING AN EARLIER VERSION OF THE SAME SIGN.
Six months before this act, ΦΕΚ Β' 1442/23.05.2016 gave Nestorio a PARTIAL approval and set this very sign aside, because the council had asked for a one-way that applied only to private cars while buses and lorries kept both directions: «υπάρχει αδυναμία διασταύρωσης IX με λεωφορείο και φορτηγό, κατά συνέπεια η προτεινόμενη ρύθμιση δεν επιλύει το πρόβλημα καθώς δεν αποκλείει τέτοιου είδους διασταυρώσεις» — a car and a bus cannot pass each other on this road, and a scheme that still lets them meet does not fix it.
The corrected scheme, approved here, drops the one-way and bars the car outright. That is the whole logic of the zone, in the publisher's words rather than this project's.