Comments on: Fighting Traffic Congestion with More Congestion

By: Road Construction at “Ayrarat” Cinema Theatere Halted Leaving The Crossroad in a Mess « Armenian Blog Review

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:53:50 +0000

[...] on the section across “Ayrarat” cinema for around a month now. I remember being rather welcoming albeit a bit skeptical when this massive construction works started back in June: Construction works are in progress also [...]

By: Oneworld Multimedia :: City Development & Environmental Concerns :: July :: 2007

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:43:08 +0000

[...] read about it first in the blogosphere here, here, here, and here, and now the mainstream media is starting to cover what many consider to be the [...]

By: Oneworld Multimedia :: Komitas, Yerevan :: July :: 2007

Oneworld Multimedia :: Komitas, Yerevan :: July :: 2007 — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:57:15 +0000

[...] a war zone for the past two years with no end seemingly in sight. Observer mentioned this in a recent post on traffic congestion, and Garo said the same when posting about urban construction projects in the [...]

By: Observer

Observer — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:27:12 +0000

I agree to the point about Nalbandyan/Charents intersection 100%!

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:20:32 +0000

Just wanted to add that the mini-tunnels being built on Nalbandyan/Isahakyan and Vartanants as it crosses Khanjian are unnecessary. In fact I don’t see the point whatsoever. There isn’t a real traffic problem at either intersection as I speak from experience, so someone has clearly had a bad idea in City Hall. Khanjian/Tigran Mets should be the only focus for such a project and nowhere else.

If anything, a traffic light needs to be installed immediately at the intersection of Nalbandyan and Charents streets. Better still, make sure all the traffic lights in Central Yerevan especially are working and properly maintained (i.e., change a burnt-out bulb within a day instead of 6 months), and do everything possible to stop pedestrians from jaywalking (clearly defined crosswalks would do just fine). Finishing up all the construction along Tumanyan Street near the Opera would help, too, not to mention the enforcement of parallel parking there.

By: Observer

Observer — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:52:26 +0000

The ring road is under construction, they keep saying about it on TV but I never catch any journalist asking when the hell it will be finished.

PS: Go Livingstone!!!

By: Onnik Krikorian

Onnik Krikorian — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:43:55 +0000

As someone who lives in Komitas, the situation is still chaotic. Just travelled downtown by public transport and it was a nightmare. Police trying (and failing) to control traffic as it hit Kassian. Basically, if we’re still in this situation here, god help us with the center.

Even in Tbilisi there seemed to be some order in conducting road repairs in a way to limit disruption of traffic whereas here we seem to like to dig everything up at the same time without thinking about alternative routes.

Incidentally, Tbilisi has a ring road to try to keep as much unecessary traffic out of the center. There is meant to be one in Yerevan. Is it under construction? Is it finished? Does anybody know what happened?

BTW: Not related to Armenia, but to traffic congestion, when I was in the UK a few weeks ago one story I saw was how the Mayor of London verbally attacked the U.S. Ambassador who refused to pay the congestion charge.

I was kind of proud of (formerly “Red”) Ken Livingstone.