No buses today
Citizens of Vanadzor will not be able to come to Yerevan today once again.
The employees at the Helsinki Civil Assembly Office in Vanadzor have investigated the Vanadzor bus station and the Vanadzor-Spitak highway.
During their studies since 9 a.m. on March 17, there were no microbuses leaving Vanadzor for Yerevan. The citizens waiting at the station were trying to find out when they will be able to reach Yerevan. In response, the employee in charge of coordinating the microbuses told them that there were not going to be microbuses all day long due to the rally in Yerevan.
The citizens also complained that it is also impossible to take buses because there is a command to not let any car travel to Yerevan.
Those waiting at the station were trying to leave for Yerevan in individual buses at a higher price (during our studies, citizens were preparing to leave for Yerevan by paying 2,500 drams for each person instead of the usual 2,000 drams).
There were rarely any cars along the Vanadzor-Spitak highway, despite the fact that there were no police officers.
Let us remind that this is the third case in 2011. The
first was on 15 February 2011 when drivers of cars with Georgian state license numbers from Gyumri were not allowed to go to Vanadzor and the drivers from Vanadzor were not allowed to go to Gyumri.
The second case was on 18 February 2011 when citizens of Vanadzor were not allowed to leave for Yerevan to take part in the HAK's rally.
