“A person comes to work in Yerevan by car, he has to increase his expenses. enter

Yerevan Deputy Mayor Suren Grigoryan clarified what Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan meant, saying that “cars entering Yerevan from the provinces should be parked at a certain point and used by public transport in Yerevan, but all this takes time and there should be parking lots for that.”

According to the deputy mayor, this program is one of the strategic goals of the city government.

Vahagn Sahakyan, president of the branch union of taxi services of Armenia considering the traffic of the capital, the situation of public transport, it is certain that the city government will not be able to achieve it at this pace.

It was said years ago that if this continues, the city authorities will have to ban the entry of cars with odd number plates into Yerevan one day, and even ones one day. However, this is not a solution to the problem either.

“The city government has no idea what number of cars and what areas we are talking about, where the cars will occupy and how much the load of city transport will increase after that. It is not enough that the equipment of our city roads is below par, and they have decided that in this situation they can provide enough space for all those cars that come to Yerevan to park and then enter Yerevan.

These are neither the builders nor the furnishers of those parking lots, because if there is no serious supervision, God knows what could happen. People park their cars in yards, steal the license plates, then leave a phone number saying: bring this much money, take the license plates, and leave them in the parking lot outside the city.” 168.amVahagn Sahakyan mentioned in a conversation with

According to Vahagn Sahakyan, it is not the case that, for example, 1000 cars enter Yerevan from the regions, their number is more. The number of cars in the capital increases twice a day from that flow. The solution to this problem is somewhere else, the city government is just not smart enough to find or see those solutions.

“There is no one to ask why so many cars come to Yerevan, let them be interested in this, do a social survey, and find out: what part of those cars come to work, and what part come to “taxi”? In Berm, they take the residents of the city to the market, drive them under the taxi, then in the evening they pick up the residents and go home.

They should think, make it so that these cars don’t need to enter Yerevan so much, all business centers should be urged to help, at least some of them should be taken out of Yerevan, not all of them should be concentrated in Yerevan, and people will have to park their cars in such a place that they will be fined several thousand. Let them think about this, it should have been thought about a long time ago. the ministries should have been removed from Yerevan, not the universities, because after removing the universities from here, Yerevan will not become a village, but a city. 

In short, the city government will not be able to implement this scheme, it’s just talk, they want to show that they are doing something,” added our interlocutor.

He drew everyone’s attention to the daily traffic on the Yerevan-Sevan road, which makes him think that in 2-3 years, if the road is not widened, there will be a collapse on that road as well. Meanwhile, the authorities continue to sell the lands adjacent to those areas, until now they have no plan as to when and how much these roads will be widened. If they had such a plan, they should have kept the adjacent lands, instead of allowing everyone to buy and put his “dukan” on those roads.

“Can you imagine, a person comes to Yerevan by car to do work, and has to increase the cost by parking the car in some part of Yerevan and using public transport? And did they think that this will lead to an increase in real estate prices, they are doing everything to artificially raise prices, because today the prices of houses in Yerevan have exceeded the prices of houses in Los Angeles, this is a shame.

They took over “Araratcement”, they allegedly nationalized it, but they are dividing the property, after that the price of cement increased, they declare otherwise that it has not increased in price, but they buy real from the factory at a higher price. These people are openly lying,” emphasized Vahagn Sahakyan.

Vahagn Sahakyan answered the question: can public transport become a real alternative in this situation to implement such a program?

“We don’t have such a transport system, we can’t have it in the near future. Or they will increase the state debt by another 2 billion dollars in order to bring so many cars. At our bus stops, public transport vehicles arrive and pile up, they cannot accommodate, how are they going to solve the problem, for example, Vahagn Sahakyan emphasized.