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Taxi Drivers Step Up Strike, Block Traffic

Taxi drivers have blocked major roads across Greece.
Taxi owners occupied the country’s longest suspension bridge at Rio in western Greece and blocked the Athens-Patras highway, also in the west.
“I don’t know how long it will last,” taxi owner Panagiotis Skentzos said on television station Skai.
Others blocked access roads to the Herakleion airport at the resort island of Crete, forcing tourists to walk 500 meters with their luggage to get on buses and other transport.
Cabbies also blocked access to the main port on the island of Corfu. Thymios Lymberopoulos, head of protesting greater Athens Taxi Owners Association, said his members would surround the Transport Ministry in Athens for 48 hours.
“They are not giving us a chance to take even one step back,” Lymberopoulos told protesters over a loudspeaker after meeting Transport minister Yiannis Ragoussis.
“They are creating an atmosphere of tension that no one will be able to control. But we will proceed.”
On Sunday, taxi owners prevented 1,600 cruise passengers from visiting the famous archaeological site of Knossos in Crete, a move local media said they might repeat on Monday.
(Source: Reuters, AP)

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