YEREVAN, AUGUST 1, NOYAN TAPAN. On August 1 the Armenian president Serge Sargsian participated in the opening ceremony of the transport subway near the Airarat Cinema, at the crossroads of Yerevan's Tigran the Great, Khanjian and Agatangeghos Streets. The transport node starts from Khorenatsi Street and ends in Khanjian Street in front of the Pegagogical Academy. It ensures an interrupted movement from Agatangeghos Street to Khanjian Street and in the opposite direction, and a pedestrian crossing is regulated by traffic lights. Griar company began the construction of the transport node by design of Yerevanproject Institute in June 2007, the program cost made 1 billion 845 million drams which was allocated from the RA state budget. The total length of the node is 360 meters, the length of the underground part is 80 meters, its width - 15 meters. During the opening ceremony Yerevan's mayor Yervand Zakharian stated that this structure is one of the junction points of the complex road construction program that will ensure tranport flows along a freeway with a large capacity which is being built in Saralanj, bypassing the Small Center of the city and considerably reducing the time of movement from the southern to north-eastern parts of Yerevan. "Today the rapid and large-scale construction of Saralanj highway, Getar freeway, and work done in Heratsi, Charents, Koryun, Alek Manukian, Nalbandian and Khanjian Streets is in the junction phase and will be completed in late September," the mayor said, adding that in order to deal with traffic congestion in the city's center, it is envisaged to build soon underground parking lots at Opera Square, Sharles Aznavour Square, Shahumian Square and Sakharov Square and near Yerevan Cycle Track.

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