Notara Street (Patras)
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Notara Street (Greek: Odos Notara), is Patras' major street running from Amerikis Street up to Aretha and Afstralia Streets. The street have been served with the GR-8/E55 (Athens - Corinth - Patras) and the GR-5 with the GR-48/E65 since the 1970s as well as a second branch from Amerikis to Notara until 1995 when another street to the north diverted traffic nearly 1 km north. Its total length is approximately 2 km. The street contains two lanes with mostly parking spaces.
Residential buildings with older and modern architectures covers much of the portion of the street as well as residential buildings, shops as well as stores and other services are in the southern portion. The Meilichos river flows 800 m north of Amerikis Street and several old and new groves covers the northern part of the street.
[edit] History
The avenue was paved in mid-20th century. The area became the national highway in the 1970s and housing developments with six to eight-storey residential properties were added at a high capacity until the 1990s. Farmlands that were pastures and groves as well as other crops used to dominate the entire street until the 1970s. The new link with the New GR-8 was under construction and opened in 1995 in which the traffic moved north and westward but thirdly used. Traffic lights were installed in the mid to the late-1990s. The Misko pasta factory which was dominating the southern block existed between the 1950s and the 1990s and in the early-2000s, Patras' Lidl supermarket was added in the west side.
[edit] Intersections
In order from south to north:
- Amerikis Street
- Terpsithea Street?
- Agyia/Agiou Konstantinou Street
- Aretha Street - the last two on the list are in the same intersection.
- Afstralias Street
