Yerevan public transport fare rise plan removed from Council of Elders's next meeting

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09.02.2024, 13:38

The Yerevan Municipality has removed a plan designed to raise public transport fares from the agenda of the upcoming session of the Council of Elders.

Yerevan public transport fare rise plan removed from Council of Elders's next meeting

YEREVAN, February 9. /ARKA/. The Yerevan Municipality has removed a plan designed to raise public transport fares from the agenda of the upcoming session of the Council of Elders.

Suren Grigoryan, Vice-Mayor of the Armenian capital, said he asked Mayor Tigran Avinyan to do so in order to discuss the plan in detail and bring it up for consideration again.

The Council of Elders was to discuss the plan on February 13. It proposed to introduce a classification of fares - with an increase in the fare for almost all categories (now the fare for one trip by a bus and subway is 100 drams and 50 drams for a trip by a trolleybus). If the plan was approved, the new prices were to come into force on September 1, 2024.

'The Municipality’s plan provoked quite a wide protest from all segments of the capital's residents.

Earlier, Grigoryan said that the real cost of one trip in public transportation today is about 200 drams and that the plan was s aimed at reducing to a certain extent the volume of subsidies, which is now quite large.

According to him, the new system will also allow getting rid of shadow turnover of funds in public transportation. -0-

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