Greek National Road 8

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National Road 8
Εθνική Οδός 8
Route information
Length	230 km (140 mi)
History	Constructed: late 1890s–1900s
Major junctions
East end	central Athens
West end	central Patras
Location
Country	West Greece
Major cities	Athens, Corinth, Aigio, Patras
Highway system
Highways in Greece Motorways National Roads

Greek National Road 8 (

(A8).

National Road 8 passes along the northern coast of the Saronic Gulf, through the Isthmus of Corinth and further, along the southern coast of the Gulf of Corinth, and ending in downtown Patras. It runs through five regional units: Central Athens, West Athens, West Attica, Corinthia and Achaea. Since the opening of National Road 8A it is mainly used for local traffic in the coastal towns.

Original route

According to the Government Gazette in 1963, the original alignment of EO8 ran from Athens to Patras, via: Corinth, Kiato, Derveni, Aigio and Rio.^[1]

Present route

Today, the EO8 bypasses

.

Additionally, the

, although it bypasses many villages and towns that the EO8 directly serve. The remaining sections of the EO8a (between Corinth and Rio) will be upgraded to be part of the A8, and the EO8 will become a non-motorway detour.

Apart from the EO8a and A8, the EO8 has connections with (from east to west) the EO1, EO56, A1, EO58, EO3, EO7, EO31, EO5, EO33 and EO9: the EO58, a short airport road to the Eleusis Airbase, also branches off from the EO8.

References

Further information

Geographic data related to Greek National Road 8 at OpenStreetMap