ARF Supreme Body Member: Inaction by Armenian authorities will lead to a transport collapse in Yerevan

ArmInfo. The Armenian authorities' inaction to resolve traffic congestion on the roads of the Armenian capital will lead to a transport collapse in Yerevan. Garnik Danielyan, a member of the Supreme Body of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) of Armenia and former member of parliament, wrote about this on his Facebook page.

He noted that today, residents of the Armenian capital are spending most of their day stuck in traffic jams due to the inaction of the city authorities. "For many years, we have proposed solutions to address this problem - from preventing illegal parking on the roadways to constructing overpasses and new bypass roads. It was obvious, and we warned about this, that sharply increasing the cost of 'red lines' would not help prevent traffic jams. "Instead, we proposed building underground and above-ground parking, but the city authorities remained indifferent to these proposals," noted the member of the ARF Supreme Body.

According to Danielyan, to solve the traffic congestion problem, it is necessary to attract leading specialists in the field who will conduct a comprehensive monitoring of traffic, analyze existing problems, and develop long-term solutions. However, according to him, there is information that instead of hiring specialists for the positions created for this purpose, people affiliated with the current authorities are being hired for high-paying positions. "One can only imagine the catastrophic situation that would develop on the streets of Yerevan in the event of snowfall. Just as they 'built' the metro station in Ajapnyak, so they 'solve' the traffic congestion problem. Meanwhile, day by day, this problem is becoming one of the most pressing, wasting our citizens' precious time and escalating tensions. If this continues, Yerevan will soon find itself in a state of transport collapse, and it's possible that one day traffic will truly come to a complete standstill," Danielyan concluded.

It's worth noting that on November 27, 2025, at a government meeting, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that two working groups would be created in Armenia to address air pollution and traffic congestion in Yerevan. On December 10, 2025, an Interdepartmental Commission for Traffic Regulation and Congestion Management was established. This was despite the fact that the Yerevan Municipality already had a structure in place to address this issue. At the same time, Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan stated that the problem of traffic congestion in the capital would be resolved by improving the quality of public transportation. Specifically, through the implementation of the Yerevan Metro modernization program, which included the construction of the new Ajapnyak station. However, no new metro station has been built yet, nor has the previously seriously disrupted metro schedule, which ran like clockwork under the previous administration, been restored. Furthermore, the situation with other public transportation hasn't improved, and new traffic regulations developed by city officials are driving the city into even worse traffic jams. The situation is further exacerbated by the fact that half the capital's roads are dug up amid the construction of high-rise buildings here and there, requiring infrastructure. As a result, the city has found itself in a transport collapse. Now, congestion is observed in Yerevan not only during rush hour.