Minimizing Minibuses * Armenia - Transport officials say additional buses will relieve current congestion
Yerevan,Armenia -Now.com, by Marianna Grigorya -25 Jan 2008: -- While in many major cities of the world traffic congestion is relieved by inner-city rail, the ever-crowed streets of Yerevan do not enjoy such relief even though the city’s modest metro system is one of its most reliable utilities... And it is more than a decade now that minibuses – or marshrutkas as they are popularly called in a Russian fashion – remain the first choice means of public transport for Yerevans in long traffic queues, on the ice, in cold, hot or raining weather... Minibuses, a necessary irritant to drivers and pedestrians, have become the main means of transportation in the capital in the last decade... More than 3,000 minibuses are registered in Yerevan alone, according to the data of the Transport Department of the capital’s municipality. Plying on different urban routes they transport hundreds of thousands of passengers every day, most often in cramped conditions both inside and outside the bus... (Minimizing Minibuses: More buses are imported in an attempt to ease the city traffic.)Labels: minibuses
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