A 27-kilometer bicycle lane will be connecting the city’s suburbs north to south by the end of 2015, as recently announced by Greek Environment Minister Yiannis Maniatis and Athens Mayor Yiorgos Kaminis, during the European Mobility Week marking event. Starting from the northern suburb of Kifissia, the new bicycle lane will be passing through the city centre to reach the “finish line” at Faliro, southern Athens. The first phase of the project involves the construction of an 11-kilometer section between Gazi and Faliro, for which a contract has already been signed under a budget of 2.2 million euros. Soon to follow is the launch of a tender for the undertaking of the creation of the lane’s northern section that will connect Gazi to Kifissia. This section is estimated to cost 9 million euros.