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  • Yerevan Municipality Promises to Ease Commuters' Problems

    ArmenPress
    Nov. 1, 2004

    YEREVAN MUNICIPALITY PROMISES TO EASE COMMUTERS' PROBLEMS

    YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 1, ARMENPRESS: A senior official of the Yerevan
    municipality reiterated today previous promises to bring some 130
    passenger buses from Ukraine and Belarus by the end of the year to ease
    commuters' problems, who often have to wait for tens of minutes to
    squeeze into one of mini-buses that can carry a dozen people only.
    Tigran Nazarian, the head of the transport department of the
    municipality said 3,000 mini-buses operate in the capital, but they are
    not enough to transport passengers, especially in rush hours.
    Last year the municipality brought some 30 buses, mainly from
    France. Previous state-run bus companies were privatized in 1997 and
    now there is only one such company in Yerevan. Nazarian said companies
    refuse to bring buses on grounds that they do not bring profits as
    their fares are 70 drams against 100 drams charged by mini-buses. He
    said bus fares may be revised and set at 100 drams.
    Nazarian said also buses will be brought up to 2007 and by that time
    Yerevan municipality is expected to run 1000 buses. He said some 20
    buses and trolley-buses are coming soon from French Lyon.
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