YEREVAN. - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has ordered a feasibility study for studying the electric transport network of Yerevan. Deputy Mayor of Yerevan Vahe Nikoyan told the aforementioned to Armenian News – NEWS.am correspondent.  

“We have asked the bank to help us with the feasibility study, and the bank ordered it at its own expense,” Nikoyan said. The Municipality is going to receive it in the near future.  On its basis the Municipality wants to agree with the EBRD on funding for the modernization of the capital’s trolleybus system (provisional discussions have been underway for a long time).

In 2014, only 2.6 percent of the capital’s passenger flow used trolleybuses. According to the assessment of “Yerevan Electric Transport” CJSC, although trolleybuses are more comfortable than buses and microbuses, minimal means were provided for their maintenance.