Infrastructure, Transport and Networks minister Dimitris Reppas on Thursday invited public transport employees and the mass transit companies to dialogue aimed at contributing the upgrading of urban transport.
The call comes amid heightened industrial action and a 24-hour strike Thursday by urban transport employees over a bill unveiled the previous day on restructuring the mass transit system. Public deliberation on the bill opened on Thursday.
Reppas said that the government is taking "the necessary and useful initiative" for reform of urban transport "that will lead to modern and qualitative transport services that improve the everday lives of the citizen", but stressed that "this process requires everyone's cooperation".
The minister further reiterated that the government "supports the public nature of the commuter companies" and "safeguards the right to work of all the working people".
"The goal is a common one, as is also the responsibility," Reppas added.
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