WILL ARMENIA HAVE PAYABLE MOTOR-WAYS?

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[07:59 pm] 09 November, 2006

RA Government has initiated draft bill on "Motor-ways" which was
submitted to the NA for the first hearing.

There is a reference to the "payable motor-ways" in the bill which
seems to be obscure.

"Suppose an investor comes and announces, "It takes people three hours
to get to Sadakhlu from Yerevan. I want to open a direct road under
the mountains through tunnels. People can get to Sadakhlu within
half an hour. "Of course, we shall endorse his proposal as half an
hour is less than three hours," says Andranik Margaryan, Minister of
Transportation and Communication and adds, "People are free to choose;
if they want they can pay and go via shorter route. The payable roads
provide alternative solution for the RA passengers."

The prospect of employing payable motor-ways in Armenia is still deem
as no one has submitted such a proposal to the RA Government yet.