There are many problems connected to public transportation in Armenia’s capital, said Yerevan mayor Karen Karapetyan in an interview with Ekho Moskvy (“Echo of Moscow”) radio recently.<\/p>\n
To set the city’s rhythm “as befits a metropolis,” the Yerevan mayor intends to solve the problems of public transportation.<\/p>\n
“We will move from mini-vans to medium and large buses. Secondly, we have to restrict the entry of intercity buses to Yerevan, since many, apart from the function of moving citizens from Point A to Yerevan, enter the city and burden road traffic.<\/p>\n
“Thirdly, we will move to a single payment system (though likely not very soon). This way, there will be a unified system of traffic management for which the operator who controls the cash flow simply pays the transportation carrier [i.e.metro, bus company which in turn pays the drivers] for the work it did, and so, there would be no motivation to make a 14-seater bus into a 17-18-seater bus [i.e. trying to cram more passengers than there are seats in the bus].<\/p>\n
“The construction of roads is quite problematic because from a business perspective it’s not very profitable. But [public] transportation is lucrative. If we set the rules of the game clearly, I’m more than confident that businesses will come with their own buses and begin to manage [the system]. When the overall transportation network will be more or less understood, then the unified system of cash flows will be understood,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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