Satik Seyranyan writes on his Facebook page. “Avinyan is intensively spreading the word of Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze on the media platforms close to him, that the increase in the number of cars in the capital is a growing problem.

“Strict restrictions on drivers may be needed, from charging tolls to enter certain neighborhoods to allowing vehicles to travel only on certain days. The final decision on this issue should be made by the city.”

Kakha Kaladze has earned the right to say that. He has been the mayor of Tbilisi since 2017. During his tenure, from 2017 to 2026, a number of major road construction projects were implemented in the city, new automobile bridges, overpasses and tunnels were built, and old road junctions were reconstructed.

• 2018 the overpass at the intersection of Tsintsadze-Kartozia streets was built.
• 2019 the 246-meter overpass connecting Sarajishvili Street to Marshal Gelovani Avenue was put into operation. In the same year, the construction of a new road connecting Marshal Gelovani avenue to Mukhran Machavarian street started.
• in 2023 a new four-lane road connecting Marshal Gelovani avenue to Mukhran Machavarian street was opened. The project for the construction of the avenue connecting Lisi Lake with Gelovani has also been started.

in 2024 the 260-meter, four-lane automobile bridge built between Baghebi and Hamalsaranak Street was opened.

in 2025 the new tunnel connecting the University and Petri Kavtaradze streets was put into operation. Construction of a new road and strengthening of slopes were also carried out in Vashlijvari.

in 2026 in October, the new bridge built over the Dighmura river was opened, which connects the parts of Vashlijvari and Dighomi.

The mentioned list does not include the repair works of old bridges and roads.
During Kakha Kaladze’s tenure, since 2017, repair and reconstruction works of previously built bridges and road infrastructures have also been carried out in Tbilisi.

• 2018-2019 the bridges over the Gldanula river were rebuilt.

• 2018-2019 Reconstruction works of the Vakhushti Bagrationi bridge were carried out.

• 2019 Ponichala underpass was reconstructed.

• In the following years, repair works were also carried out in the direction of Shalikashvili and Mshvidoba bridges.

In addition, the 2025-2029 plan of the municipality included the complete reconstruction of the Mindel and Galaction bridges, the renovation of the Queen Tamar bridge, as well as the reconstruction of Rustaveli, Vazha Pshavela and Guramishvili avenues and a number of other streets.

Nikol Pashinyan, Tigran Avinyan. What have you done besides demolishing your duo booth, paving the same part of the city with low-quality asphalt every year, renovating a few kindergartens, creating a few formal mowed gardens, at the expense of yards and free spaces in congested neighborhoods, without observing urban planning norms, issuing permits for the construction of adjacent apartment buildings (without the necessary distance between buildings, ventilation, parking spaces), and low-quality pothole works? Not to mention, what billions are being wasted, what kickbacks, systemic corruption are raised by citizens and experts.

According to the Transparency International Anti-Corruption Center, 543 permits for the construction of apartment buildings were issued from 2019 to April 2024, but only 49 completion certificates were issued during the same period.

Even now, Avinyan, who is still criminally inactive (along with his deputies, especially the one who is the main decision-maker in the municipality) declares that traveling by car in Yerevan should become a luxury in a certain sense.

Are you serious? Where are your bicycles and scooters, your helmet? The business of the former CP official’s bicycle importing company flourished well during this time, so why don’t you go ahead with it?

Collect cigarette butts, carry cameras, film, take pictures, drive a bus… that’s yours…
If for years you have allowed dense development, the construction of business centers without creating adequate road infrastructure, then why should the main burden of solving the problem of congestion be placed on citizens who own cars?

About billions later. Now, that’s all.”