Thessaloniki Inner Ring Road


The Thessaloniki Inner Ring Road is a dual carriageway ring road encircling most of the Thessaloniki Urban Area in Central Macedonia, Greece. Planned in 1975 and put into service in the 1990s, it consists of the Western Ring section, and of the main Inner Ring section. With three lanes per direction it carries over 120.000 cars per day, making it one of the country's most busy highway sections.

Course

The Western Ring section starts at a coastal spur highway, the Thessaloniki New Western Entrance. Passing by the municipalities Ampelokipoi-Menemeni, Kordelio-Evosmos and Pavlos Melas it joins the A24 motorway near Efkarpia. The Western Ring section has been recently upgraded to full Motorway standard in its biggest part with five new intersections have been built.
The A24 motorway forms the 21km main section of the Inner Ring. Following the outline of the city's eastern periphery, it separates the city from the forests of Kedrinos Lofos known as "Seich Sou". When the road was planned in the 1970s, this fact drew massive protests by what would become the country's pioneer environmentalist movement, the Ecological Movement of Thessaloniki.
In southern Thessaloniki, A123 motorway forms a short extension of the Thessaloniki Inner Ring connecting it with National Road 16 and the Thessaloniki Airport.

Exit list

Regional unitPart ofExitNameDestinationsNotes
ThessalonikiK16Kalochori interchange New Western Entrance
ThessalonikiK17
Thessaloniki23 July 1974 St., Ano Kordelio
ThessalonikiAno Kordelio
ThessalonikiMeandros St., Evosmos
ThessalonikiMakriyannis St., Stavroupoli
ThessalonikiK18, Stavroupoli
Thessaloniki25 March St., Efkarpia
ThessalonikiK5Efkarpiacont.
ThessalonikiK6Polichni
ThessalonikiK7Kastra
ThessalonikiK7AAgios Pavlos
ThessalonikiK8Triandria
ThessalonikiK9Ano Toumpa
ThessalonikiK10Pylaia/Malakopi
ThessalonikiK11Pylaia/Panorama
ThessalonikiK12Kalamaria interchangecont.
ThessalonikiPoseidonos
ThessalonikiEthnikis Antistaseos
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