More Komitas Chaos
Komitas, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2007
Just came back after popping out for 10 minutes to take some more photos in the immediate vicinity of where I live and as you can imagine, the situation is even more chaotic when there are pedestrians, motorists and construction workers around. One day I hope they’ll get all of this finished. Two years of chaos and unordered construction work is really too much and I can’t say that I’ve seen any improvement in roads or other forms of local infrastructure as a result.
I’m sure work needs to be done, but it should also be with some proper coordination, safety measures and alternate routes in place first. Besides, they already dug up most of the intersection opposite the HSBC Komitas bank and after completing that a few months ago they’re now doing it again. It’s also worth pointing out that this area is hardly illuminated at night and it’s potentially lethal for traffic even as it stands in the daylight.
Komitas, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2007
Driving is treacherous all along Gomidas Avenue from the top of Gassian to the “Lambada” bridge near “Raikom.” Only two weeks ago did City Hall’s municipal workers finally get around to tearing up the streets near the Gomidas Marketplace primarily to extract the iron tram rails (supposedly in a fury to sell them for construction projects) and to replace water pipes. At least Friendship Square (a.k.a., Paregamutiun), arguably the busiest intersection in the entire city perhaps second to the Khanjian/Tigran Mets crossroads, was just recently repaired apparently within only one week.
Comment by Christian — July 10, 2007 @ 3:58 pm