{"id":306074,"date":"2026-10-14T18:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T14:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=306074"},"modified":"2026-10-19T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T07:30:00","slug":"what-are-the-causes-of-driving-test-queues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/306074\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the causes of driving test queues?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>In Yerevan, the wait time for the practical driving test reaches up to 106 days.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants wait for months, while exams in the capital are conducted exclusively at the Erebuni registration and examination unit.<\/p>\n<p>The &ldquo;Driver&rsquo;s Friend&rdquo; NGO attributes the problem also to a shortage of examination units, whereas the Ministry of Internal Affairs considers the main reason to be the increase in the number of applicants.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"video_container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#1352;&#1408;&#1400;&#1374;&#1398;&#1412; &#1381;&#1398; &#1406;&#1377;&#1408;&#1400;&#1408;&#1380;&#1377;&#1391;&#1377;&#1398; &#1387;&#1408;&#1377;&#1406;&#1400;&#1410;&#1398;&#1412;&#1387; &#1412;&#1398;&#1398;&#1400;&#1410;&#1385;&#1397;&#1377;&#1398; &#1392;&#1381;&#1408;&#1385;&#1381;&#1408;&#1387; &#1402;&#1377;&#1407;&#1395;&#1377;&#1404;&#1398;&#1381;&#1408;&#1384;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h_0ixUxHEtM?start=1&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p>What steps are being taken to reduce the queues?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Yerevan, the wait time for the practical driving test reaches up to 106 days. Applicants wait for months, while exams in the capital are conducted exclusively at the Erebuni registration and examination unit. The &ldquo;Driver&rsquo;s Friend&rdquo; NGO attributes the problem also to a shortage of examination units, whereas the Ministry of Internal Affairs considers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":304994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,47,54,76,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-society","category-social","category-reports","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306076,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306074\/revisions\/306076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}