YEREVAN, OCTOBER 29, NOYAN TAPAN. It is envisaged passing Armcarstation CJSC, which includes all the car stations, car parks and route regulation points in Armenia, to a company with an international experience for concession management. NT correspondent was informed by the director of Armcarstation Armen Harutyunian that prior to that, they intend to carry out some work at 31 car parks in order to make the system more attractive to investors. For this reason structural changes are underway at the company. Some improvement will also be made soon at the expense of the company. As for the car station system, A. Harutyunian described its state as quite poor: in some cities, car parks do not function. There are no conditions for normal provision of services to drivers and passengers. In particular, satisfactory hygiene and sanitary conditions are absent, the fire prevention norms are violated. Public catering facilities do not operate, and before departure, cars do not undergo a checkup. There are 17 route regulation points in Armenia, mainly in the capital city. A. Harutyunian said that the problem here is that most of them are located in areas not permitted by the government. Besides, according to some checks, vehicles are sent by their routes without being registered at the respective route regulation service. The ticket sale order is violated, and preliminary sales of tickets are not organized. Measures are being taken to legalize the operation of route regulation points: they are being moved either to the areas of car stations or to sites permitted by the government. It was mentioned that in the past month Armcarstation paid off its debt of 29 million drams.

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