About 50 bus drivers serving the Abovyan-Yerevan and Charentsavan-Yerevan routes, resumed their services today after a one-day strike in protest of a free bus service that was cutting into their business.
Drivers with the King de Luxe Company complain that the buses belonging to tycoon Gagik Tsarukyan's charitable foundation offer free rides along the same routes and take away their passengers. Consequently the drivers of public buses lose money and hardly cover fuel expenses.
Gagik Tsarukyan Foundation's free buses were initially meant for students from Abovyan (Kotayk province) studying in Yerevan. However, in February, prior to the parliamentary elections, the foundation increased the number of free buses, and made them available for the public at large. (Tsarukyan is chairman of Prosperous Armenia Party.)
Armenian News
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