{"id":158599,"date":"2024-12-02T07:16:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T07:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2024\/12\/02\/255578\/"},"modified":"2025-01-02T12:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T12:17:38","slug":"bank-cards-now-accepted-for-travel-on-yerevans-public-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2024\/12\/02\/158599\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank cards now accepted for travel on Yerevan&#8217;s public transport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, December 2. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>Starting now, passengers can pay for travel on all buses, minibuses, and trolleybuses in Yerevan using bank cards, announced the city&#8217;s vice-mayor, Suren Grigoryan, at a meeting at the city hall on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to him, this option is currently available only for physical cards issued by local banks, with no commission fee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Commissions will be paid by the payment company TelCell, which is implementing this program,&#8221; Grigoryan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He noted that in the coming days the system will be tested, any issues will be identified and addressed, after which card payments will also be available on the metro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In turn, Mayor Tigran Avinyan added that it will be possible to pay for travel on ground public transport using a mobile phone, provided it has the NFC function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Yerevan, since November 1, payment on buses is only possible via QR codes or 100-dram coins (drivers are prohibited from accepting other cash or providing change).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting now, passengers can pay for travel on all buses, minibuses, and trolleybuses in Yerevan using bank cards, announced the city&#8217;s vice-mayor, Suren Grigoryan, at a meeting at the city hall on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-158599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-banks-en-en","7":"category-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}