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ALMOST 50 PERCENT OF YEREVAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT PASSENGERS ARE NOT CALCULATED - NGO
July 31, 2013 | 13:42
YEREVAN. - Virtually half of the passenger flow in Armenia's capital
city Yerevan is not calculated, stated "Consumers' Association"
NGO Chairman Armen Poghosyan, during a press conference on Wednesday.
In his words, the statements, according to which no more than fourteen
people commute in the public transport minibuses, are not true.
"But the municipal authorities do not speak about this; this is a
violation of the rules on minibus operation and passenger service,"
Poghosyan stressed.
As per the NGO chairman, the standing passengers of the public
transport minibuses are not calculated during taxation, and this is
profitable for the transportation companies.
"This non-calculated revenue must be regulated," Armen Poghosyan added.
As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, the Yerevan Municipality
recent decision to increase the public transport fares in the city
had brought about outbursts, several groups were formed in the social
networks, and the initiatives were staging protests and distributing
pamphlets against this decision. In addition, the Free Car initiative
was launched, along the lines of which Armenia's numerous well-known
personalities, MPs, and ordinary residents were providing-with their
own vehicles-free transportation to the people.
And on July 25, Mayor Taron Margaryan suspended the decision on the
fare hike; but the wave of the aforesaid movement is still alive. The
activists demand that the persons, who made the decision on raising
the transport fares, be brought to account, and those officials,
who used violence against and cursed at the activists, be punished.
News from Armenia - NEWS.am
July 31, 2013 | 13:42
YEREVAN. - Virtually half of the passenger flow in Armenia's capital
city Yerevan is not calculated, stated "Consumers' Association"
NGO Chairman Armen Poghosyan, during a press conference on Wednesday.
In his words, the statements, according to which no more than fourteen
people commute in the public transport minibuses, are not true.
"But the municipal authorities do not speak about this; this is a
violation of the rules on minibus operation and passenger service,"
Poghosyan stressed.
As per the NGO chairman, the standing passengers of the public
transport minibuses are not calculated during taxation, and this is
profitable for the transportation companies.
"This non-calculated revenue must be regulated," Armen Poghosyan added.
As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, the Yerevan Municipality
recent decision to increase the public transport fares in the city
had brought about outbursts, several groups were formed in the social
networks, and the initiatives were staging protests and distributing
pamphlets against this decision. In addition, the Free Car initiative
was launched, along the lines of which Armenia's numerous well-known
personalities, MPs, and ordinary residents were providing-with their
own vehicles-free transportation to the people.
And on July 25, Mayor Taron Margaryan suspended the decision on the
fare hike; but the wave of the aforesaid movement is still alive. The
activists demand that the persons, who made the decision on raising
the transport fares, be brought to account, and those officials,
who used violence against and cursed at the activists, be punished.
News from Armenia - NEWS.am