YEREVAN. – If Yerevan Municipality does not meet our demands, we will take drastic measures.  

Hrant Yeghiazaryan, Chairman of the Union of Passenger Transport Companies of Armenia, stated the above-said at a press conference on Friday.  

He recalled that capital city Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan’s advisor had told them that the city hall needs time to get a report on the passenger flow.    

“[But] we cannot wait any longer; they promise us for already five years. We submitted an open letter to the mayor, [and] to the effect that we will resort to extreme measures. We are in a financially extreme state; that is why we agree to wait for only three days,” Yeghiazaryan stated.     

He added, however, that the given drastic measures will not affect the Yerevan residents and the city’s public transport system will not be interrupted.   

But the public transport route owners preferred not to say what drastic measures they will take. 

To note, the Yerevan public transport route operators are discontent with the activities of the municipality committee which is to set the cost price of the public transport fare. The representatives of the public transport companies demand that the public transport fare be raised to 200 drams (approx. $0.50), instead of the current 100 drams (approx. $0.25). The NGOs and the political opposition, on the other hand, harshly criticize them for making such a demand.