ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Dec 27 2007

Road construction in Yerevan totals AMD 4.5bln in 2007

YEREVAN, December 27. /ARKA/. The road construction in Armenia
totaled AMD 4.5bln (about $4.8mln) in 2007. Head of construction and
urban improvement department of Yerevan City Hall Frunz Basentsyan
told reporters that key roads and crossroads of the city were
reconstructed by these means.

`In 2007 Yerevan Municipality fulfilled all the planned programs on
road construction. During the construction all requirements were
taken into account, and in a couple of days we will have competently
organized transport nodes,’ he said.

He said that the large scale road construction was the call of the
times of this year. He informed that the City Hall intended to finish
the construction of the high-speed road Saralanji, reconstruction of
Khanjyan – Tigran Mets – Khorenatsi crossroad and Komitas avenue.
Basentsyan did not specify the volume of planned means for the
implementation of these projects.

>From the beginning of the year construction of several big transport
nodes and underground passages has been conducted for cardinal
solution to problems connected with the transport movement and
security of pedestrians. For this reason the traffic is complicated
in big main lines of the capital.

For the implementation of social-economic programs of Yerevan about
AMD 94.6bln ($310.9mln) was spent in2007. -0 –