Greece: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Platanias has one driving restriction on our books: the «Η περιοδική πεζοδρόμηση της παραλιακής οδού στα τμήματα εκατέρωθεν της… (limited traffic zone). What is a limited traffic zone?
Sources last read on 2026-09-28, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-28.
Πλατανιάς is a small beach settlement at the southern tip of Pelion, at the end of the road down from Προμύρι — the far end of the peninsula from Volos, and a very long way from the Πλατανιάς most visitors have heard of, which is in Crete. For two months of the year its shore road stops being a road in the evening.
From 1 July to 31 August, between 21:00 and midnight, the coastal road is a pedestrian street: «Η περιοδική πεζοδρόμηση της παραλιακής οδού στα τμήματα εκατέρωθεν της Επαρχιακής οδού τους θερινούς μήνες Ιούλιο- Αύγουστο για το χρονικό διάστημα 21:00 έως 24:00 μ.μ.».
The measure is decision 106/2026 of the municipal council of Δήμος Νοτίου Πηλίου, approved by the Γραμματέας of the Αποκεντρωμένη Διοίκηση Θεσσαλίας - Στερεάς Ελλάδας at Λάρισα on 25 August 2026 and gazetted three days later. 🔑 The sign is the thing to know, because it carries the exemptions the act itself never lists.
The order is for Ρ-55 signs, and the Greek Highway Code defines Ρ-55 as a pedestrian street «απαγορευμένης της διέλευσης άλλων εκτός πεζών, οχημάτων άμεσης ανάγκης και οχημάτων για την είσοδο - έξοδο σε παρόδιες ιδιοκτησίες» — closed to everything except pedestrians, emergency vehicles, and vehicles going in or out of a property on the street.
If you have a room on the shore road you may still reach it; a passing car has no business there after nine. 🚨 And the price of getting that wrong is the strangest number this corpus has published.
Measured on the Code today: a Ρ-55 breach is category Ε1-Α, which is a thirty-euro fine — the smallest in the whole tariff — and it is *also* category Σ, antisocial road behaviour, which adds forty days without a driving licence. Thirty euros and forty days. The same corpus's Karpathos closure, which uses the no-entry sign Ρ-7 instead, costs €150 and twenty days.
The cheaper ticket is the one that takes your licence for twice as long. ⚠️ Two things this record cannot tell you, and says so rather than filling in. The act does not name the coastal road, does not number the Επαρχιακή οδός, and does not publish the study and drawings that would say where the two sections begin and end.
And it does not write «κάθε έτους», «of each year», where its Thira and Karpathos counterparts do — so the season is treated as annual here for the reasons set out in the timetable on this page, not because the act says it. 🔑 The same gazette issue carries a second act of the same municipality for the neighbouring settlement of Άγιος Γεώργιος, and that one is deliberately not a page here: it is a no-stopping and no-parking order on the open ground by the church, sign Ρ-40, which is a parking rule and not a driving restriction.