Free pass for Stylida residents at Pelasgia toll posts

The company operating the Pelasgia toll posts on the Athens-Lamia national highway on Thursday announced that it will issue 1,400 passes that will distributed to Stylida residents throughout charge and allow them toll-free passage.

Until the passes are distributed, local residents will be allowed through the toll posts without charge.

The decision followed the sensational arrest of Stylida Mayor Apostolos Glezos, a well-known actor that starred in a number of local television series, after he tore down the barriers at the toll posts to create an access road for locals and demanded action to ensure that they did not have to pay tolls for local trips within their own municipality.

The issue arose after the company failed to issue passes for locals, who had no alternative road for making local trips and were forced to use the motorway and pay expensive tolls.