THERE IS NO MONEY TO RECONSTRUCT ROADS

A1 Plus | 20:08:46 | 15-09-2004 | Politics |

The highways of republican importance are somehow reconstructed
whereas the roads out of main highways are impassable. This problem
alarmed MP Manvel Ghazaryan.

Communication and Transport Minister Andranik Manukyan announced that
the 1560 kilometer ways of interstate importance are reconstructed
and are up to international standards. According to him, only 30 %
of 1830 kilometer routes of republican importance is repaired, and
5900 kilometer-long regional and local roads are in a sad state.

Mr. Manukyan reminded that World Bank finances construction of the
roads of interstate and republican significance and the budget hasn’t
had enough sums for the local roads. But about 2 milliard and 300
million drams have been allotted for restoration of the local roads.

“Within “Millennium Challenges” Armenian Government together has
introduced a project of $ 137 million for reconstruction of 2989
kilometer-long routes. Armenian Government tries to get credit of $
20 million from the credit companies for that purpose. The problem
exists and it must be solved”.

Land of Law MP Vram Gyurzadyan posed Andranik Manukyan a question on
arbitrariness in the filed of inter-city taxi route. “After winning
the tenders the transporters or their owners increased the fare
without permission from 1000 drams to 1200”, he says.

Gyurzadyan’s question enraged Manukyan. He said Gyurzadyan could have
told him about the problem earlier instead of raising the question
in Parliament, and then promised those guilty of arbitrariness will
be punished.