{"id":311014,"date":"2026-11-06T10:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T06:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=311014"},"modified":"2026-11-06T11:19:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T07:19:58","slug":"five-hours-to-get-from-kentron-to-davtashen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/311014\/","title":{"rendered":"Five hours to get from Kentron to Davtashen"},"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>Traffic jams in Yerevan have reached the point where delays are measured in hours. Some people are late for work or classes, while others spend five hours covering a journey that should take just 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>While city officials talk about deploying more tow trucks and improving traffic management at intersections, long-standing problems remain unresolved, including overcrowded public transport, a lack of alternative ways to get around and insufficient parking spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Why has travelling just a few kilometres across the capital become an hours-long ordeal?<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"video_container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"5 &#1386;&#1377;&#1396;` &#1343;&#1381;&#1398;&#1407;&#1408;&#1400;&#1398;&#1387;&#1409; &#1332;&#1377;&#1406;&#1385;&#1377;&#1399;&#1381;&#1398; &#1392;&#1377;&#1405;&#1398;&#1381;&#1388;&#1400;&#1410; &#1392;&#1377;&#1396;&#1377;&#1408;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8eo21l9LtV0?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<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic jams in Yerevan have reached the point where delays are measured in hours. Some people are late for work or classes, while others spend five hours covering a journey that should take just 20 minutes. While city officials talk about deploying more tow trucks and improving traffic management at intersections, long-standing problems remain unresolved, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":310971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,47,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-society","category-reports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311014","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=311014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311016,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311014\/revisions\/311016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}