Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001461/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Kostas Papadakis (NI)
Recurrent landslides are persistently and increasingly causing problems on the national road between Tripoli and Pyrgos. Due to landslides on the deathtrap that is the EO74, the region of Gortynia has been cut in two, leaving local residents unable to carry out even the simplest of everyday tasks. There are issues with the general road infrastructure, as the byroads serve a large volume of traffic, given the equally unacceptable condition of the lakeside road connecting the areas of Tropaia and Kontovazaina with the national road between Patras and Tripoli (111), as well as of the road between Loutra and Dimitsana, which cannot cope with the demands of large vehicle traffic. What is worse, the transfer of patients from the Tropaia health centre is being hindered.
This unacceptable situation is one of many examples of the repercussions of the cost-benefit policy followed by the EU, the Nea Dimokratia Government and all the previous ones, since this road is ‘ineligible’ for funding due to the ‘cost-benefit analysis’.
In view of the above, can the Commission answer the following:
- 1.What view does it take of the urgent request from the inhabitants of Arkadia and their collective associations for immediate funding and for the implementation of the essential project concerning the stretch of the Tripoli-Pyrgos national road between Vytina and Archaia Olympia with a bypass of Lagkadia?
- 2.What view does it take of the fact that cost-benefit policies of the EU and national governments leave roads that are critical for the lives and everyday activities of local residents unmaintained, incomplete and, ultimately, posing a risk to their lives and safety?
Submitted: 9.4.2025