Progress
Considerable progress has been made to the construction of the metro system since work began in 2006. Overall, 7.2 km of tunnels have been dug underneath the city, 3.8 for direction A and 3.04 for direction B. As the overall length of a single tunnel is estimated to be 9.6 km, 37.5% of the entire network has already been dug. As of November 2010, the following progress has been made to the stations on Phase 1 of the construction.
| Station | |||||||
| Dimokratias | |||||||
| Venizelou | |||||||
| Agias Sofias | |||||||
| Sintrivani | |||||||
| Papafi | |||||||
| Eukleidi | |||||||
| Fleming | |||||||
| Analipseos | |||||||
| Patrikiou | |||||||
| Voulgari | |||||||
| Nea Elvetia | |||||||
- Completed
- Underway
- Not started
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