YEREVAN. – The public transportation fare in Armenia’s capital city Yerevan will not increase on January 1, 2014. 

Yerevan Municipality Transport Department Chief Henrik Navasardyan told the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

As per Navasardyan, the commission, which was set up to discuss the public transportation fares in the city, was to convene a session at the end of December; but this session is rescheduled to January of next year.  

The Yerevan city hall official informed that the public transport passenger flow is studied at present, and the session will be held once these studies are completed.   

At the same time, however, Henrik Navasardyan does not believe that the fares will increase immediately after holding one session.    

After the studies and the discussions, an agreement is expected to be reached on how much the public transportation fare will rise in Yerevan.