Skala Kefalonias, Greece · Limited traffic zone
Official name Έγκριση της υπ’ αρ. 74/2022 απόφασης του Δημοτικού Συμβουλίου Αργοστολίου περί της επικαιροποίησης - αναθεώρησης Κυκλοφοριακών Ρυθμίσεων και απαιτούμενων σημάνσεων για τον οικισμό Σκάλας Δ.Ε. Ελειού - Πρόννων Δήμου Αργοστολίου κατ’ εφαρμογή του άρθρου 52 του ν. 2696/1999 (Αριθμ. 74795, ΦΕΚ Β' 2545/24.05.2022)
In force in Skala Kefalonias right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 12:05 · Europe/Athens
🚨 THE SEASON AND THE 24-HOUR BASIS COME FROM THE MUNICIPALITY, NOT FROM THE GAZETTE, and the page says so wherever it prints either. ΦΕΚ Β' 2545/2022 orders the pedestrianisation and prints no clock and no calendar; it governs «σύμφωνα με την (25) σχετική εγκεκριμένη κυκλοφοριακή μελέτη», which is not published with it. The period is published by Δήμος Αργοστολίου and attributed by it to «τον ισχύοντα κανονισμό». 🚫 It must not be re-described as a gazetted season.
🚨 THE 06:00–12:00 SLOT IS NOT A WINDOW IN THIS CLOSURE and must never be encoded as one. The municipality's sentence is exclusive: «η κυκλοφορία και η στάθμευση στον πεζόδρομο θα επιτρέπεται ΜΟΝΟ για οχήματα τροφοδοσίας καταστημάτων, τις ώρες από 6 π.μ. έως 12 το μεσημέρι». It admits a class of vehicle for six hours; it does not open the street. Adding it to `windows` would tell every driver the street is theirs all morning, which no source says.
⚠️ THE WINTER MONTHS ARE OUT OF FORCE ON A PUBLISHED PERIOD, WHICH IS NOT THE SAME AS A PUBLISHED WINTER. The municipality states the period and re-opens the pedestrian street each spring; the gazette's approval itself carries no season, and the regulation that sets the period has not been read. If that regulation provides something for 1 November to 30 April, this page does not know it — so out of season, treat the signs on the street as the authority and expect the ordinary Highway Code rules for a πεζόδρομος to be capable of applying.
The exceptions cannot be seen by a timetable. Supply vehicles in the morning slot, permit holders, emergency needs and vehicles going in and out of a property's own parking space are all admitted while the rule is in force, so for them this schedule over-warns in every hour of the season.
🚫 Three streets are not the whole of Skala. This record covers οδός Κωνσταντίνου Τραυλού and the dead-end sections of Βασιλέως Παύλου and Βασιλέως Κωνσταντίνου; the same act one-ways much of the rest of the village and moves its parking. A street's absence from this record is not permission to drive it however you like.
Public holidays are not encoded because no source mentions them. Neither the act nor either announcement exempts a day or a date, and 15 August — the busiest day of the Greek summer — falls inside the season.
🚨 This timetable cannot tell you whether the rule has commenced in law. The act makes its measures effective «από την τοποθέτηση των οικείων πινακίδων σήμανσης ή των διαγραμμίσεων στο οδόστρωμα» and gives no date for that, which is why `effective_from` is null. The municipality's 2025 announcement says the signing exists — «Σύμφωνα με τις ισχύουσες σημάνσεις» — but never says when it went up.
The schedule is derived from `hours` and carries no fact that is not in the sources named there.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
Skala is a settlement on Kefalonia, in the Δημοτική Ενότητα Ελειού-Πρόννων of Δήμος Αργοστολίου, and the street through the middle of it — the one the municipality's own notices describe in terms of «τα καταστήματα, την εστίαση και τις τοπικές επιχειρήσεις» and «στον κεντρικό ιστό της Σκάλας» — is closed to traffic for the whole tourist season. 🔑 The rule is published in two halves by two publishers, and this page keeps them apart on purpose.
THE APPROVAL is in the gazette: ΦΕΚ Β' 2545/24.05.2022, in which the Αποκεντρωμένη Διοίκηση Πελοποννήσου, Δυτικής Ελλάδας και Ιονίου approves council decision 74/2022 of Δήμος Αργοστολίου for the settlement of Skala and orders, as the first of seven measures, «i. Πεζοδρόμηση της οδού Κωνσταντίνου Τραυλού» — the pedestrianisation of οδός Κωνσταντίνου Τραυλού — and, as the fifth, «v.
Πεζοδρόμηση των αδιέξοδων τμημάτων των οδών Βασιλέως Παύλου και Βασιλέως Κωνσταντίνου», the pedestrianisation of the dead-end sections of Βασιλέως Παύλου and Βασιλέως Κωνσταντίνου.
THE OPERATING TERMS are not in the gazette: the act governs «σύμφωνα με την (25) σχετική εγκεκριμένη κυκλοφοριακή μελέτη και το διάγραμμα που τη συνοδεύει», a traffic study that is not published with it, and it records in its own recitals that a pedestrian-street operating regulation was approved — «Εγκρίθηκε ο Κανονισμός λειτουργίας Πεζοδρόμου σύμφωνα με την (26) σχετική» — naming among its documents council decision 54/2022, which approved «την υπ’ αρ.
18/22 απόφασης Επιτροπής Ποιότητας Ζωής που αφορά τον Κανονισμό λειτουργίας Πεζοδρόμου Σκάλας Αργοστολίου». 🔑 The municipality publishes what that regulation provides, on its own site, at the start of each season.
Its announcement of 29 April 2026 states the period: «Σύμφωνα με τον ισχύοντα κανονισμό, η περίοδος εφαρμογής της πεζοδρόμησης εκτείνεται από 1η Μαΐου έως 31 Οκτωβρίου, σε 24ωρη βάση» — from 1 May to 31 October, on a 24-hour basis — and its announcement of 30 April 2025 states what may move on the street while it is closed: «η κυκλοφορία και η στάθμευση στον πεζόδρομο θα επιτρέπεται μόνο για οχήματα τροφοδοσίας καταστημάτων, τις ώρες από 6 π.μ. έως 12 το μεσημέρι». 🚨 So for six months of the year this is not a night-time or evening closure of the kind most of this corpus's Greek records describe: it is a whole-day closure of the shopping street, with a morning delivery window that admits supply vehicles only. ⚠️ Two things no source this project holds will say.
The regulation itself is unread — but it is no longer unidentified, and the difference matters. On 2026-09-25 the national transparency register's open-data search, which that register's own robots.txt permits, returned both halves of it by name: the Επιτροπή Ποιότητας Ζωής act «Κανονισμός Λειτουργίας Πεζοδρόμου για τον οικισμό Σκάλας Δ.Ε.
Ελειού Πρόννων», ΑΔΑ 9ΖΟ046ΜΓΤΤ-572 of 23 March 2022, classified by the publisher itself as a ΚΑΝΟΝΙΣΤΙΚΗ ΠΡΑΞΗ, and the council decision that approved it, ΑΔΑ 6ΤΕΔ46ΜΓΤΤ-1ΙΒ of 8 April 2022, whose subject is «54/22 ΑΠΟΦΑΣΗ ΔΣ «Έγκριση της αριθ 18/22 απόφασης Επιτροπής Ποιότητας Ζωής που αφορά τον Κανονισμό λειτουργίας Πεζόδρομου Σκάλας.»» — the same 54/2022 and the same 18/22 the gazette's recitals name. 🚫 What the register does not hand over is the text: the document paths themselves are closed in the same robots.txt, so the exact list of permit holders is still taken no further than the municipality's own phrase «η πρόσβαση οχημάτων που διαθέτουν σχετική άδεια».
And the act commences on the placing of the signing, «ισχύουν από την τοποθέτηση των οικείων πινακίδων σήμανσης ή των διαγραμμίσεων στο οδόστρωμα», with no date given anywhere for that placing, which is why `effective_from` is null even though the municipality confirms in 2025 that the signing is up.
Εθνικό Τυπογραφείο (National Printing House) — Εφημερίδα της Κυβερνήσεως, ΦΕΚ Β' 2545/24.05.2022, Αριθμ. 74795 of the Αποκεντρωμένη Διοίκηση Πελοποννήσου, Δυτικής Ελλάδας και Ιονίου, signed at Patras on 12 May 2022, read together with the Δήμος Αργοστολίου announcements of 30 April 2025 and 29 April 2026 for the season and the delivery window the gazette leaves to the traffic study and to the pedestrian-street regulation
Nothing is charged and there is nothing to buy in advance.
The act is a traffic-regulation approval under article 52 of the Highway Code; it creates no permit sold to visitors, no day ticket and no tariff, and it puts the cost of the signing on the municipality — «Το κόστος της προμήθειας και της τοποθέτησης της κατάλληλης κατακόρυφης και οριζόντιας σήμανσης θα βαρύνει τον Προϋπολογισμό του Δήμου ή τον ανάδοχο κατά τις συμβατικές του υποχρεώσεις». ⚠️ One permit exists and it is not priced anywhere this project can read.
The municipality's 2026 announcement says the regulation provides for «την πρόσβαση οχημάτων που διαθέτουν σχετική άδεια» — access for vehicles holding a relevant permit — and says nothing about who may hold one, what it costs or how it is applied for. ⚠️ The document that would answer that is the Κανονισμός Λειτουργίας Πεζοδρόμου Σκάλας Αργοστολίου, approved by council decision 54/2022 on the Επιτροπή Ποιότητας Ζωής's decision 18/2022.
It is not in the gazette; a search of argostoli.gov.gr on 2026-09-24 for «Κανονισμός Λειτουργίας Πεζόδρομου» returned nothing; and diavgeia.gov.gr, the national transparency register where such a decision sits, disallows /doc/*, /decision/view and /luminapi/api/decisions/* in its own robots.txt — measured for this corpus in cycle 65 and unchanged. ✅ What changed on 2026-09-25 is the identification, not the reading.
The same register's /opendata/ paths carry no such prohibition, and a search of them scoped to Δήμος Αργοστολίου returned the regulation itself — ΑΔΑ 9ΖΟ046ΜΓΤΤ-572, protocol 4024, issued 23 March 2022 by the ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗ ΠΟΙΟΤΗΤΑΣ ΖΩΗΣ and typed ΚΑΝΟΝΙΣΤΙΚΗ ΠΡΑΞΗ — and the council approval, ΑΔΑ 6ΤΕΔ46ΜΓΤΤ-1ΙΒ, protocol 5956, issued 8 April 2022 by the ΓΡΑΦΕΙΟ ΔΗΜΟΤΙΚΟΥ ΣΥΜΒΟΥΛΙΟΥ. 🔑 The register's own record of that approval carries an empty gazette field, which is the publisher's own statement that the act was never published in the ΦΕΚ — so «not in the gazette» above is now corroborated by the register rather than resting on this project's failure to find it. 🚫 Neither entry publishes a charge, because neither entry publishes any text at all: the register gives the subject, the number, the date, the issuing body and the classification, and stops.
So this is an unread document rather than a document known to contain no charge.
Twenty-four hours a day, from 1 May to 31 October. The municipality prints the whole of it in one sentence — «Σύμφωνα με τον ισχύοντα κανονισμό, η περίοδος εφαρμογής της πεζοδρόμησης εκτείνεται από 1η Μαΐου έως 31 Οκτωβρίου, σε 24ωρη βάση» — and «σε 24ωρη βάση» is doing the work: inside the season there is no evening start and no morning end, the street is a pedestrian street around the clock.
No weekday is named, so no weekday is excluded. 🚨 NEITHER HALF OF THIS IS IN THE GAZETTE.
ΦΕΚ Β' 2545/2022 orders «Πεζοδρόμηση της οδού Κωνσταντίνου Τραυλού» with no clock and no calendar at all, and governs «σύμφωνα με την (25) σχετική εγκεκριμένη κυκλοφοριακή μελέτη», which is not published with it; the season and the 24-hour basis are published by Δήμος Αργοστολίου, which is the municipality whose council decision the gazette approved, and which attributes them to «τον ισχύοντα κανονισμό» — the pedestrian-street operating regulation the act's own recitals record as approved. 🔑 One hour range appears beside it and it is NOT a window in which the street is open to you: «η κυκλοφορία και η στάθμευση στον πεζόδρομο θα επιτρέπεται μόνο για οχήματα τροφοδοσίας καταστημάτων, τις ώρες από 6 π.μ. έως 12 το μεσημέρι» — between 06:00 and 12:00 driving and parking on the pedestrian street are allowed ONLY for vehicles supplying the shops.
The 2026 announcement repeats the same slot in the same terms, «την τροφοδοσία καταστημάτων (τις ώρες από 6 π.μ., έως 12 το μεσημέρι)». 🚫 A driver who is not delivering to a shop gains nothing from it, and it must not be read as six hours of open street. ⚠️ Outside the season the municipality's own word is «επαναλειτουργία», a re-opening of the pedestrian street each spring «όπως κάθε χρόνο», which says as plainly as the municipality ever does that between 1 November and 30 April the street is not operating as a pedestrian street.
That is a narrowing of a gazetted pedestrianisation which carries no season of its own, and the Highway Code expressly allows an operating regulation to make it: article 2 §56 admits the uses it lists «εκτός αν άλλως ορίζεται από τον κανονισμό λειτουργίας τους».
The winter months are therefore encoded as out of force on the municipality's published period rather than on an assumption — but the regulation that sets that period has not been read, and if it provides anything for the winter this page does not know it. ⚠️ It has now been identified — ΑΔΑ 9ΖΟ046ΜΓΤΤ-572 of 23 March 2022, «Κανονισμός Λειτουργίας Πεζοδρόμου για τον οικισμό Σκάλας Δ.Ε.
Ελειού Πρόννων», approved by council decision 54/2022 — and that changes nothing about the season on this page: the register publishes the act's identity, not its clauses, so the 1 May to 31 October period still rests on the municipality's announcement and on nothing else.
Δήμος Αργοστολίου, official municipal website, announcement «Επαναλειτουργία Πεζόδρομου Σκάλας για τη θερινή περίοδο», dated Αργοστόλι, 29/4/2026, from the Γραφείο Αντιδημάρχου and signed by Αντιδήμαρχος Νικόλαος Κουρκουμέλης — the municipality whose council decision 74/2022 the gazette approves, publishing the period and the basis that the gazette leaves to the traffic study and to the operating regulation
One street through the middle of a seaside village, plus two dead ends off it. The act names them and names nothing else: «i. Πεζοδρόμηση της οδού Κωνσταντίνου Τραυλού» and «v.
Πεζοδρόμηση των αδιέξοδων τμημάτων των οδών Βασιλέως Παύλου και Βασιλέως Κωνσταντίνου». 🔑 The act also says, in the same breath, how you are meant to reach the edge of it: measure iv is the «Διαμόρφωση των διπλής κατεύθυνσης οδών Κεφαλληνίας και Διαδ.
Παύλου στη συμβολή τους με τον πεζόδρομο, ώστε να εξυπηρετείται η πρόσβαση και η στάθμευση των μόνιμων κατοίκων» — οδός Κεφαλληνίας and οδός Διαδόχου Παύλου are arranged two-way where they meet the pedestrian street, so that residents can reach it and park.
Those two are NOT closed; they are the way in. 🚫 The gazette gives no end points for οδός Κωνσταντίνου Τραυλού, which it pedestrianises entire, and no length for the two dead-end sections beyond the word «αδιέξοδων», dead-end. 🚫 It publishes no coordinate of any kind — no ΕΓΣΑ 87 table, no sign position, no bounding point — and governs by «το διάγραμμα που τη συνοδεύει», the drawing accompanying the approved traffic study, which is not published with the issue. ⚠️ The municipality's two announcements print no map and no street name either: they speak of «ο πεζόδρομος της Σκάλας», the pedestrian street of Skala, in the singular and without naming it.
This record joins the two by publisher and says so: the streets are the gazette's, the season and the delivery slot are the municipality's, and nothing on this page asserts that the municipality named οδός Κωνσταντίνου Τραυλού, because it did not.
Εθνικό Τυπογραφείο — Εφημερίδα της Κυβερνήσεως, ΦΕΚ Β' 2545/24.05.2022, Αριθμ. 74795: the operative list of seven measures for the settlement of Skala, of which i and v are the pedestrianisations and iv is the two-way arrangement that serves access to them
This scheme sets no emission threshold, and the absence is structural rather than unrecorded. A pedestrianisation asks whether a vehicle may be on the street at all, not what comes out of its exhaust.
No Euro class, no fuel type and no registration year appears anywhere in the act or in either municipal announcement; the only vehicle properties that matter here are whether the vehicle is supplying a shop between 06:00 and 12:00, whether it holds a municipal permit, whether it is answering an emergency, and whether it is going in or out of the parking space of a property on the street.
The same as for petrol and for the same structural reason: nothing in the act or the announcements distinguishes one engine from another, and every exemption published turns on what the vehicle is doing rather than on what it burns.
Εθνικό Τυπογραφείο — Εφημερίδα της Κυβερνήσεως, ΦΕΚ Α' 100/13.06.2025: ν. 5209/2025, «Κώδικας Οδικής Κυκλοφορίας». Article 2 §56 for the definition of a pedestrian street, for the abutting-property entry and exit it allows, for the supply and emergency vehicles it admits and for the operating regulation's power to vary all of it; article 20 §4 and §8 β) for driving on one and for the category it falls in; article 108 §5 γ) and δ) for the tariff and the licence measures
Δήμος Αργοστολίου, official municipal website: the announcement of 30 April 2025, «Ενημέρωση για την λειτουργία του πεζόδρομου της Σκάλας από την Πέμπτη 1η Μαΐου 2025», which prints the exclusive delivery slot and confirms that the signing is in force, read with the announcement of 29 April 2026 for the season and the permit, with ΦΕΚ Β' 2545/24.05.2022 for the streets and the access arrangement, and with ν. 5209/2025 for the rights the Code itself gives on a pedestrian street
Εθνικό Τυπογραφείο (National Printing House) — Εφημερίδα της Κυβερνήσεως, ΦΕΚ Β' 2545/24.05.2022, Αριθμ. 74795 of the Αποκεντρωμένη Διοίκηση Πελοποννήσου, Δυτικής Ελλάδας και Ιονίου, signed at Patras on 12 May 2022 by ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΣ ΠΑΝΑΓΙΩΤΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ, Γενικός Διευθυντής ΧΩ.ΠΕ.ΠΟ., «Με εντολή Συντονιστή Αποκεντρωμένης Διοίκησης». THE GOVERNING ACT: it approves council decision 74/2022 of the Δημοτικό Συμβούλιο Αργοστολίου «περί της επικαιροποίησης - αναθεώρησης Κυκλοφοριακών Ρυθμίσεων και απαιτούμενων σημάνσεων για τον οικισμό Σκάλας Δ.Ε. Ελειού - Πρόννων Δήμου Αργοστολίου κατ’ εφαρμογή του άρθρου 52 του ν. 2696/1999», and lists seven measures of which i and v are the pedestrianisations this record encodes. It also carries the recital that the pedestrian-street operating regulation was approved, the commencement clause tied to the placing of the signing, and the automatic-revocation clause. 🚨 It prints NO hours, NO season, NO end points and NO coordinates: those it leaves to the approved traffic study of 05/2022 and to the operating regulation, neither of which is published with it
Δήμος Αργοστολίου — official municipal website, announcement «Επαναλειτουργία Πεζόδρομου Σκάλας για τη θερινή περίοδο», dated Αργοστόλι 29/4/2026, Γραφείο Αντιδημάρχου, signed by Αντιδήμαρχος Νικόλαος Κουρκουμέλης. THE SOURCE OF THE SEASON: it states that the seasonal operation of the pedestrian street is put into effect «όπως κάθε χρόνο … σύμφωνα με τον εγκεκριμένο Κανονισμό Λειτουργίας Πεζόδρομου», that «η περίοδος εφαρμογής της πεζοδρόμησης εκτείνεται από 1η Μαΐου έως 31 Οκτωβρίου, σε 24ωρη βάση», and that the regulation provides for shop deliveries between 06:00 and 12:00, for emergency needs and for the access of vehicles holding the relevant permit
Δήμος Αργοστολίου — official municipal website, announcement «Ενημέρωση για την λειτουργία του πεζόδρομου της Σκάλας από την Πέμπτη 1η Μαΐου 2025», dated Αργοστόλι 30/4/2025, Γραφείο Αντιδημάρχου, signed by Αντιδήμαρχος Νικόλαος Κουρκουμέλης. THE SOURCE OF THE ONE THING A DRIVER MAY DO: «Σύμφωνα με τις ισχύουσες σημάνσεις, η κυκλοφορία και η στάθμευση στον πεζόδρομο θα επιτρέπεται μόνο για οχήματα τροφοδοσίας καταστημάτων, τις ώρες από 6 π.μ. έως 12 το μεσημέρι». It is cited beside the 2026 announcement because it states the exclusivity in the municipality's own words, and because it is the only source this project holds that says the signing is in place
Εθνικό Τυπογραφείο — Εφημερίδα της Κυβερνήσεως, ΦΕΚ Α' 100/13.06.2025: ν. 5209/2025, «Κώδικας Οδικής Κυκλοφορίας», the Greek Highway Code — the source of the €350 in `penalty`, of the definition of a pedestrian street in article 2 §56 together with the entry and exit it allows to abutting properties, the supply and emergency vehicles it admits and the power it gives an operating regulation to vary all of it, of the prohibition and classification in article 20 §4 and §8 β), and of the tariff and licence measures in article 108 §5 γ) and δ)
Διαύγεια (Diavgeia) — the Greek national transparency register, open-data record of the ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗ ΠΟΙΟΤΗΤΑΣ ΖΩΗΣ of Δήμος Αργοστολίου, ΑΔΑ 9ΖΟ046ΜΓΤΤ-572, protocol number 4024, issued 23 March 2022. THE IDENTITY OF THE OPERATING REGULATION AND NOTHING MORE: its subject is «Κανονισμός Λειτουργίας Πεζοδρόμου για τον οικισμό Σκάλας Δ.Ε. Ελειού Πρόννων», the unit that issued it resolves through the register's own /opendata/organizations/100049102/units to «ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗ ΠΟΙΟΤΗΤΑΣ ΖΩΗΣ», and its decisionTypeId Α.2 resolves through /opendata/types to «ΚΑΝΟΝΙΣΤΙΚΗ ΠΡΑΞΗ» — the publisher's own classification of it as a regulatory act. ⚠️ THE ENTRY DOES NOT PRINT THE NUMBER 18/2022. That this is the Επιτροπή Ποιότητας Ζωής decision 18/22 which the gazette's recitals name is an inference from four measured things — the same municipality, the Quality of Life Committee as the issuing unit, a subject identical to the regulation's title, and a date sixteen days before the council decision that approves 18/22 — and it is not a printed identification. 🚫 The act's text is not served here: its documentUrl is https://diavgeia.gov.gr/doc/9ΖΟ046ΜΓΤΤ-572, and /doc/* is disallowed in this register's robots.txt
Διαύγεια (Diavgeia) — the Greek national transparency register, open-data record of the ΓΡΑΦΕΙΟ ΔΗΜΟΤΙΚΟΥ ΣΥΜΒΟΥΛΙΟΥ of Δήμος Αργοστολίου, ΑΔΑ 6ΤΕΔ46ΜΓΤΤ-1ΙΒ, protocol number 5956, issued 8 April 2022. THE COUNCIL DECISION THE GAZETTE'S RECITALS NAME: its subject is «54/22 ΑΠΟΦΑΣΗ ΔΣ «Έγκριση της αριθ 18/22 απόφασης Επιτροπής Ποιότητας Ζωής που αφορά τον Κανονισμό λειτουργίας Πεζόδρομου Σκάλας.»» — both numbers the gazette prints, 54/2022 and 18/22, in the publisher's own words. 🔑 ITS GAZETTE FIELD IS EMPTY. The register carries an extraFieldValues.fek slot for acts that go on to be published in the Εφημερίδα της Κυβερνήσεως, and on this record it is null — which makes «this regulation is not in the gazette» a statement by the publisher rather than a report of this project's failure to find it. 🚫 The act's text is not served here either: documentUrl is https://diavgeia.gov.gr/doc/6ΤΕΔ46ΜΓΤΤ-1ΙΒ, disallowed by the same robots.txt
Next scheduled re-check: 2026-12-23.