"Freezes" THE SCHOOL OF STUDENT TRAVEL

Problem with moving schools will face once again, thousands of students of Thessaloniki and Chalkidiki, as the bus owners said they will stop by tomorrow to transport due to non-payment of their debts last year, and the non-signing contract for the current school year. 
Tomorrow morning, in protest, is expected to deploy their buses outside the building ...
Region of Central Macedonia (former county).
The problem affects about 7,000 students of Thessaloniki (from a total of 11,500 students transported, excluding those of the experts, musicians and sports schools), who transferred more than 200 buses, as well 4000 and other students of Chalkidiki, for whom every day about 100 chartered buses, and bus owners.
In a letter to the Ministers of Education and Interior, the prefect central Macedonia, Panayiotis Psomiadis, inform about the intention of the Association of Tourism Operators Macedonia - Thrace to stop by tomorrow to transport and calls directly to solve the problem with legislation, so as not to continue this year suffering students, parents and teachers.
According to the President of the Federation of Tour Operators Macedonia - Thrace, Thanasis Gkagkamani, the contracts with leoforeiouchous for transporting school students living in remote areas, expired on December 31, 2010, and although there was a promise from the Interior Ministry to renew until 30 June 2011 (end of this school year) have not been signed yet, but there was no relevant legislation.
coach owners of Thessaloniki, face an additional problem, that the payment of accrued from the previous year (2010) - of around five million euros - as Service Audit does not approve the payment of that sum, featuring the oldest-dated contracts. The Court, however, had approved the validity of those contracts. So while the money given to the region can not be released, and returned back.
"return our money back as null and void our contracts," says Mr. Gkagkamanis features and emphasizes that "the same problem we faced last year in payments we face this year. "
"Handbrake" will draw tomorrow and coach owners of Halkidiki, which contracts for transporting approximately 2,500 students, also have signed for the current year. Determined to stop are the leoforeiouchoi the bus, which cover 40% of school transport in the region.
Approximately 30 routes and 1,200 students transported by bus, will be in tomorrow ... air, and award the tender was canceled twice and the new competition has been set for February 24."The process of selecting and contracting will last until April," said President of Halkidiki Bus, Stephen Valavanidis. The amount due from April 2010 to date amounts to approximately one million euros. However, a few bus routes to schools (12), will take place normally, if the contracts have not expired.
Meanwhile the next few days are expected mobilization of Associations of Parents of schools in which students are transfers. According to the President of the Federation of Parents prefecture of Thessaloniki, George Thomoglou, heads of schools have informed parents about the problem.
In addition, appeals assistance to municipalities that have the ability to temporarily allocate buses to serve at least young students. "Imagine the problem created by parents who will be transporting children to school with their own vehicles, until they found a solution. Repeatedly we have asked for the immediate mobilization of ministries, but unfortunately the issue has reached an impasse, "he said.  with information from ANA-MPA