Yerevan has been turned into a dilapidated city by the current authorities, with asphalt lasting barely a year and paving stones only a season, opposition MP Tigran Abrahamyan wrote on his Facebook page.
A member of the National Assembly’s “I Have Honor” faction, Abrahamyan said he recently listened on the radio to excerpts from a Municipality meeting.
“If someone from outside, unfamiliar with our country, heard it, they would think a newly elected mayor was just getting acquainted with the work and the problems.
The discussion was of terrible quality and substance — artificial ‘remarks’ to heads of various departments and low-grade dialogue typical of the genre.
In addition to all the misfortunes this government has brought, it has also turned Yerevan into a ruined city. Asphalt does not last a year, paving done on the streets lasts only a season, sidewalks and roads are covered in dust and garbage. They cannot even manage basic patchwork repairs.
It is pointless to speak about serious existing problems under these conditions — traffic, transport, infrastructure projects. They have failed at everything.
And still they talk, boast and threaten, while in reality the situation is awful,” Abrahamyan wrote.
Public dissatisfaction has grown over the large number of potholes that appeared on Yerevan’s streets after the snow melted. Deputy Mayor Armen Pambukhchyan, responding to a journalist’s question, said there had been no shortage of bitumen during pothole repair works in Yerevan, but there had been shortcomings.
