National Road 42 () is a highway in northwestern Aetolia-Acarnania and in Lefkada, Greece. It links the town of Lefkada with the Greek National Road 5 (Antirrio - Arta - Ioannina) in Amfilochia, passing through the town of Vonitsa.
The eastern part of the EO42, between Amfilochia and Vonitsa, runs along the southern shore of the Ambracian Gulf. The highway contains a bridge over the Vonitsa Lagoon. A drawbridge form the connection of the island of Lefkada to the mainland. The road ends in the town of Lefkada.
Places The EO42 passes through the following towns (ordered from west to east):
Lefkada (city) Agios Nikolaos Vonitsa Paliampelia Sparto Amfilochia
History
Ministerial Decision G25871 of 9 July 1963 created the EO42 from most of the old EO19 (between Amfilochia and Lefkada), which existed by royal decree from 1955 until 1963: in December 1995, the Actium branch of the old EO19 became part of the unnumbered Igoumenitsa–Vonitsa National Road.
Agios Nikolaos–Actium National Road
The Agios Nikolaos–Actium National Road () is an unnumbered branch of the EO42 in Aktio-Vonitsa, running from in the south to Actium and the A52 in the north. The branch is about long, One-way segments count as half the total distance and link roads are not counted. and acted as a shortcut between the EO42 and the Igoumenitsa–Vonitsa National Road, before the latter was shortened by the A52 to Actium in April 2019.
The Agios Nikolaos–Actium National Road was created by Ministerial Decision DMEO/e/O/1308 of 15 December 1995, making it part of the secondary national network, and was numbered the EO42β for statistical purposes by the National Statistical Service of Greece (ESYE) in 1998.
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