YEREVAN. – Armenian capital city Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan’s decision to return to the old public transport fares is only temporary.

Harutyun Arakelyan, a taxi company director who serves several public transport routes in Yerevan, told the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am. 

“The Mayor’s decision has its reasons and it is temporary. I don’t think it will last for more than two or three days. According to this decision, the [Yerevan] Municipality will set up a working group, which will study the transport fare and help in making a final decision,” Arakelyan stated.      

To note, Margaryan on Thursday convened a consultation meeting, during which he commissioned to suspend the Mayor’s decision to review the public transport fares. That is, the Yerevan commuters may pay the previous fares.   

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, the Yerevan Municipality decision to increase the public transport fares in the city had brought about outbursts, several groups were formed in the social networks, and the initiatives were staging protests and distributing pamphlets against this decision. In addition, the “Free Car” initiative was launched, along the lines of which Armenia’s numerous well-known personalities, MPs, and ordinary residents were providing—with their own vehicles—free transportation to the people.