Facebook user Vardan Poghosyan has opened a page on the popular social networking site in which he asks that Yerevan metro not raise its fares. Note, the current fare for a one-way trip on the subway costs 50 drams (about $0.14); however, in February, Yerevan mayor Karen Karapetyan announced that the fares might increase up to 100 drams (about $0.28), which is the cost of public transportation buses and mini-buses (marshrutkas).<\/p>\n
The Facebook page already has 450 fans and various comments by users.<\/p>\n
One user, Artur Baghdasaryan, writes, “A little while later, they’ll tear apart the metro and sell the railway tracks. I won’t be surprised at all if that happens.”<\/p>\n
Another Facebook user writes, “All that’s left is to make the city transport [fares] 200 drams, to be done with it.”<\/p>\n
“These guys are complete IDIOTS… let them increase the prices of everything; with which part are they thinking? Let us live in peace… What will be the end of this? … I can’t find the words, I don’t know… Rather, I do find [the words], but I can’t freely express myself, because I would write the worst words… do you understand?” wrote another user by the name of Arturo Sayan.<\/p>\n
Facebook user Haykanush Arshakyan proposed a way to protest the city’s decision: don’t take the metro for one week:<\/p>\n
“Come, let’s protest by not taking the metro for a week, let’s see what will happen. Perhaps through this way they’ll realize that the fare increase is uncalled-for.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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