100 BUSES AND 20 TROLLEY-BUSES OF MEDIUM CAPACITY TO BE BROUGHT TO YEREVAN THIS YEAR
Noyan Tapan
May 03 2007
YEREVAN, MAY 3, NOYAN TAPAN. 100 buses and 20 trolley-buses of medium
capacity will be brought to Yerevan by the end of the year. As Yerevan
Mayor Yervand Zakharian reported at the May 2 press conference, after
bringing the buses the number of buses of medium capacity exploited
in Yerevan will reach 350.
The Mayor said that in the first quarter of 2007 the number of
microbuses running by Yerevan’s central part was reduced by nearly
600 and by the end of the year will be reduced by another 300. It
was mentioned that the number of nearly 3200 microbuses currently
exploited in Yerevan will be also reduced: in the coming two or three
years it will reach 1500.
In Y. Zakharian’s words, this year 300 mln drams has been allocated
for restoration of Yerevan street traffic lights. Besides, a new
automatic system of management of transport and traffic will be
introduced in Yerevan by 2008.