18 NEW "LIAZ" TROLLEYBUSES IMPORTED FROM VOLGOGRAD TO FOLLOW 4 ROUTES IN YEREVAN

Noyan Tapan
Sep 3, 2007

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 3, NOYAN TAPAN. The new LIAZ trolleybuses (made
in 2007) imported from the Russian city of Volgograd into Yerevan
will follow four routes. The mayor of Yerevan Yervand Zakharian told
reporters on August 31 that one of these 18 trollyebuses with the load
of 116 passengers has a special movable platform allowing disabled
persons in wheelchairs to get on the trolleybus: such a trollyebus
will be used in Yerevan for the first time.

600 million drams (about 1.7 mln USD) has been allocated from the
RA state budget for purchase of these trolleybuses. The mayor said
that it is envisaged to import about 20 trolleybuses every year,
bringing their number to 150 in the next 3-4 years. The cable network
has been in parts repaired over the last 3-4 years and is currently
in a good state.

It was mentioned that a Renault-SC10 bus (number plate 318 LS 67) of
Avtobus CJSC under the jurisdiction of the Yerevan mayor’s office has
been re-equipped for servicing disabled passengers and transferred
gratis to the charitable NGO of Pyunik union of the disabled of
Armenia.