ArmInfo. At the meeting of December 26, the Yerevan Council of Elders approved the tariff for parking in the capital. The annual payment will be 160 thousand drams.
32 representatives of the Council of Elders voted for the adoption of the corresponding decision, three were against it, and the "National Progress" and "Mother Armenia" factions boycotted the vote.
During discussions of the draft decision, the head of the Civil Contract faction, Armen Galjyan, noted that about 70 thousand citizens use the "red lines". Some of them have an annual subscription fee, others - an hourly fee. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of citizens use public transport, and if there are traffic jams, the schedule of buses and trolleybuses gets disrupted. You can have hundreds of buses, but if the logistics issue is not resolved, they will have little effect.
Meanwhile, according to acting Head of Revenue Accounting and Collection Department of the Yerevan Municipality Arman Jhangiryan, increasing parking fees in Yerevan will bring an additional 150 million drams to the city budget in 2024. According to him, the revenues in 2022 amounted to 680 million drams. , - 960 million drams in 2023, and 1.2 billion drams are expected to be received in 2024. it is planned to receive 1.2 billion drams for 2024. As a result of the changes, the capital budget will receive a total of 1.35 billion drams, of which 150 million will come from the increase in parking tariffs. -sh-
