Armenian Government promises to adjust regular passenger transport   throughout all the country

ArmInfo.235 sites in Armenia are out of regular passenger transportation, David Lokyan, the Minister of Territorial Development and Administration stated at the resulting press-conference  on December 26 in Yerevan. " Those are villages  with  few residents, with hard-to-travel roads, and the  passenger flow there does not exceed 2-3 persons a day," the Minister  said.  

According to the  Minister,  bidding  procedures are launched  currently  to implement passenger carriages in these areas, because  the profitability of business is almost none, and no private  entrepreneur will be interested in that. "Studies show that the  intercommunity flows do not exceed 2-3 persons per day, roads are in  terrible conditions, which does not allow to implement proper  carriages, as well as the taxation and licensing expenses make this  aspect uninteresting for the business," Lokyan clarified.

According to the Minister, the Government takes steps to solve this  problem. Within the framework of communities enlargement and under  the grant funding, the Ministry plans to purchase appropriate  equipment to launch the intercommunity and intracommunity transport.  It is planned also to change the bidding procedures in respect to  passenger carriage. "We should arrange the competition according to a  logic assuming that any  enterprise, implementing Yerevan-Gyumri  carriage, which is a pretty profitable route, would be interested  also in Gyumri-Amasia or Gyumri-Berdashen route, where the  profitability is at a very low level. We also should find a way to  subsidize a number of routes," the Minister accentuated.