ArmInfo. The Armenian Government approved amendments to the Law on Road Transport and the Code of Administrative Offenses at a meeting on October 12.
According to Vahan Martirosyan, Minister of Transport, Communication and Information Technologies of Armenia, both documents are aimed at ensuring the availability of vehicles for all communities in Armenia. In particular, it is proposed to create a unified transport network, within the framework of which it will be possible to organize efficient passenger transportation from villages to regional centers and further to Yerevan. To this end, it is envisaged to organize tender procedures in a single package. The transport network will be formed by the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technologies in cooperation with regional authorities, whose representatives will also be involved in tender commissions. The Minister said that currently in one of the regions a pilot program is being implemented to implement this project. It is envisaged that a single transport network will be created in a year. We are talking about the unification of the transport network by regions and throughout the country, transferring it to one or more operators.
However, these terms did not suit the Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan, who demanded the resolution of this issue before the end of the first quarter of 2018. "Based on the results of the pilot project, we will estimate the overall network." There is nothing complicated here, "said Karapetyan.