“They turned the state into a laundry, they launder money. this is already the basis of the state

The issue of car parking in the capital continues to concern drivers, especially those drivers who dutifully pay for “red lines” every month, but when it’s their turn to park their car in one or another part of the city, they face a problem.

Many citizens have already applied of 168.am editorial office that in the capital they cannot park a car in front of all shops and non-state office buildings, because they are not allowed, saying that the area belongs to the shop or office, therefore, only the employees there can park the car.

Who should protect the rights of those drivers who pay the parking fee, but do not use the parking lot for almost the entire month? Do shops or offices have the right to “own” the entire parking lot?

Vahagn Sahakyan, President of the Branch Union of Taxi Services of Armenia in other words, in reality, neither the Yerevan Municipality is acting according to the law, considering the collection of “red line” fees, nor the owners of shops or other establishments that keep the area only for themselves.

“We pay a separate toll for those roads, which includes both the traffic and the stop. They supposedly gave it separate regulations, but it is still illegal. You cannot pay twice for one service. the property tax of the car includes the road fee, and paying a separate fee for parking the car on the same road is illegal.

They want to explain to us that if they don’t do that, people will stop their cars and leave, they won’t come back for days, but this is not the answer of either the Government or the Municipality. If they hired people who work with the money we gave them and cannot make regulations, they complicate people’s lives even more, they take extra money to make these regulations in their own way, this is already an attempt to undermine the foundations of the state, which is working very well for them.” of 168.am said Vahagn Sahakyan in a conversation with

According to our interlocutor, the municipality is breaking the law, violating people’s rights, when it started putting payments for “red lines” into circulation.

“If the community allows such illegality and the Government turns a blind eye, why shouldn’t the supermarket and other institutions do it?” Whoever protects human rights has no right to violate those rights. When you start having a conversation, there have been many times such a conversation, the state department starts to switch to “kitchen” conversations and says, “Well, what should we do?” They say, what should the “clients” of the store do, and this is in the case that they were once obliged to raise a question against the store, if a store is being built, then it is obliged to provide a parking space, so that they do not disturb others.

I repeat, what they are doing is illegal. They turned the state into a “laundry house” – they launder money,” added Vahagn Sahakyan.

Continuing the thought, he said that the situation in almost all post-Soviet countries is the same as in Armenia, it is the same “menagerie”, and civilized countries have solved this problem long ago.

“But on the other hand, our citizens are also at fault, they bring cars and park them in yards, even in front of garages, when you say you are disturbing them, they ask in surprise, where should we park the car?” This question should not be asked to me, but to the relevant authorities.

If the state bodies do not think, at least the car buyer should think about where he will park his car.

The whole problem also comes from the fact that the capital has become very dense, what business did Yerevan have to be so dense? Years ago, I did a study to present to the Public Council, I calculated how much the green space allocated to each resident in Yerevan is less than allowed. According to the requirements of the World Health Organization, one resident should have 50 square meters of green space, but in Yerevan it is 0.4 square meters, can you imagine? By my calculations, I came to the idea that a car with an average volume engine uses the oxygen of 80 people. And after all this, building permits are issued again every second,” he emphasized.

According to Vahagn Sahakyan, all of this shows the absence of the Government, this is the result of the absence of the Government, if there was, nothing like this would have happened. And this means that they are temporary, the others will not be chosen tomorrow, they will go to live in another country, because those people, who live at the expense of other people’s nerves and oxygen, their children have homes in other places for a long time.

“The problem should be raised constantly, let them prove that they are paying money according to the law, and what does it mean if a person pays for the “red line” and has no place to park, they are not able to solve this problem,” emphasized Vahagn Sahakyan.

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