R.I.P. trolleybuses in route 20 (Piraeus, Greece, 1948-2025)...😭 Farewell FULL RIDE 🚎⚡ скачать в хорошем качестве

R.I.P. trolleybuses in route 20 (Piraeus, Greece, 1948-2025)...😭 Farewell FULL RIDE 🚎⚡

Read below the following timestamps list to learn the background between the mass transit infrastructure developments that led to the shooting of this video. Most important moments: 00:00 Start from Neo Faliro, near Olympiacós SFP stadium. 04:58 First time seeing the sea (Saronic Gulf), from Kastélla neighbourhood! 06:55 Mikrolímano ("Small Wharf"; formerly Tourkolímano; "Turkish Wharf") 08:18 A popular site from old hellenic films. 09:14 Votsalákia Beach ("Little Pebbles Beach"). Find and listen to the old rembétiko song "Ta Kavourákia" by Vasílis Tsitsánis. 10:00 Pasalimáni or Zeus' Wharf, the most popular marina in Piraeus. 13:00 Leaving Pasalimáni, heading towards Central Piraeus. 18:18 Entering Troúmpa, approaching the Seaport. Once, Troúmpa was one of the most notorious neighbourhoods accross the whole capital area! Now, it is a vibrant and safe area of Piraeus with plenty of choices to spend your time happily there! The big commercial street that we crossed to get there is Iróon Polytechneíou (Technical University Heroes) Avenue with many well-known brands having their stores there. If you disembark the vehicle and head east from where we are looking, you will find yourself in the heart of Piraeus (Municipal Theatre Square, Koraí Square, tram and metro stations). 19:19 Seaport of Piraeus for cruiseships on the left and for coastliners on the right. 20:13 Tower of Piraeus; a scyscraper with commercial stores and offices. 21:06 A bus of route 17 (Piraus - St. George of Keratsíni). Another very old line where trolleybus service will be removed from... 24:37 The beautiful - and ailing - building of Piraeus Station (Metro lines 1-green and 3-blue). INSIDE of it, on your LEFT, you can find the Museum of Electric Railways. Climb to the bridge for a scenic view of Piraeus Seaport! 26:36 Ágios Dionýsios (St. Dennis) church. Popular area for souvláki and gýros grillhouses. 27:24 On the left (I couldn't film there), there is the "Railway Gorge", a historic site where the now-deprecated Peloponnese metric-gauge train passed between tall residential buildings where poor inhabitants descending from Asia Minor played rembétiko music and smoked... you know! 28:15 Yes! We are in Drapetsóna now! Find the old art-folk song "Drapetsóna" by Grigóris Mpithikótsis (music by Míkis Theodorákis, lyrics by the poet Tásos Livadeítis) about the hoplesness extremely poor people who used to live there for most of the suburb's existence... 33:40 Polykatoikíes. Old buildings with many flats for the workers on the huge fertilizer factory which covered a quarter of the suburb and made life there and in the neighbouring Keratsíni unhealthy. 36:12 Former production site of the Hercules Cement Company. 36:33 From now on, we can see the sea again and we are next to the city park built on the former production site of the fertilizers factory (if you want to go there, follow the white road signs that have "ΠΟΛΥΧΩΡΟΣ ΛΙΠΑΣΜΑΤΩΝ" written on them). 37:37 A scenic view of the Saronic Gulf, from Drapetsóna this time. In Drapetsóna, the passenger side of the port ends and the commercial begins. The ship repair zone is on the west, in Pérama and Salamína. 38:12 Watch until the end to see the whole vehicle inside-out! GREEK capital's most HISTORICAL and SCENIC trolleybus route STOPS being serviced by TROLLEYBUSES... This is a decision effective since Monday 08 Dec 2025 which has been very NEGATIVELY welcomed by citizens of Athens and Piraeus. Greece is the ONLY country in Europe at the moment that deprecates the majority of its trolleybus network (the longest continuous in the continent) instead of modernising and expanding it. Greek people speculate corruption and total indifference by the current government as the reasons for this decision, which lacks the necessary studies by experts and ignores the strongly negative reactions by drivers and Greek people and the different direction that OSY (the public company that runs the network) aimed to pursue. There are still no purchases of replacement vehicles. Personally, I believe that the battery electric buses which will replace the trolleybuses have many drawbacks in terms of both life cycle and efficiency and because it is a wrong move not approved by anyone except the deputy minister. They also fit less people (75 instead of more-than-90 that the current three 12 m trolleybus models can carry). There has also been done zero progress on the new tram lines that the current Master Plan for Athens-Piraeus Metropolitan Complex proposes in Annex XIV (secure link below), which would greatly help our insanely congested by traffic city. https://www.elinyae.gr/sites/default/... Many thanks to Mr. Akis for his excellent driving!