{"id":122139,"date":"2011-08-29T16:28:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T11:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=122139"},"modified":"2011-08-29T16:36:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T11:36:18","slug":"wings-of-tatev-director-explains-why-tramway-was-closed-this-past-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/08\/29\/wings-of-tatev-director-explains-why-tramway-was-closed-this-past-weekend.html","title":{"rendered":"Wings of Tatev Director Explains Why Tramway was Closed this Past Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The aerial tramway didn&#8217;t carry out all of its planned trips this past Saturday and Sunday. It operated with some breaks due to weather conditions, Wings of Tatev tramway director Tigran Ghazaryan told Epress.am.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last Saturday and Sunday, due to changes in the weather, the Tatev cable car was not operating on a full schedule, and now the tramway is in the process of moving from a summer to an autumn schedule, more details of which will be announced. Weather conditions in Syunik marz [the Armenian province in which the tramway is located] have changed, and we are moving perforce to a fall schedule.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The equipment is being made to correspond to weather conditions and relative barometric pressure, and we are implementing other necessary actions. Naturally, it is not possible to immediately warn [passengers] of short-term breaks in service that are due to weather conditions. And we even told those passengers that are in the cable car, &#8216;You know, the weather is good now, but in a few minutes, it might change&#8217;,&#8221; Ghazaryan explained, addressing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=122105\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>tourists&#8217; complaints<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that they were not forewarned that the tramway would be closed when they arrived this past weekend and were forced to turn back.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Ashot Arzumanyan (<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Wings_of_Tatev_Tram.jpg\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aerial tramway didn&#8217;t carry out all of its planned trips this past Saturday and Sunday. It operated with some breaks due to&#8230;<br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13187,13189,13188],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}