The airport at Jerusalem/ Atarot, and the train.
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1… The Cfir Jerusalem RED-LINE tram is doing maintenance and changes for their rail lines from 20th Jan 2022 for about a month between the CBS and the Damascus Gate.
Here is the diagram.
Bus #79 will connect the two CBS - DG [see the blue line] for the duration.
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Lines currently under costruction bor in detailed engineering all pass through or touch the main central business sdistrict. Now an exception has been authorized, the Puplee Line.
The Regional Planning Committee has approved the proposed route for the Jerusalem Purple Line. This 14 km line with 19 stops is will rub east-west across the southern part of the city. Stage 1 will start at an interchange with the Blue Line at Talpiot and run west for 4·6 km, six intermidiate stops. to Malcha, the depot location…Stage 2 will continue west via Kiryat HaYovel to the Hadassah-Ein Kerem Hospital, where there sharing the Red Line Extension Terminal, already under construction. Bridges and tunneel will be requiredm because of hills along the route.
Funds are from the budget of 13bn shekels which the national government has already allocated for construction of the Green and Blue lines. Five consortia were shortlisted in August 2021 to tender for a 25-year PPP concession to build, operate and maintain the Purple and Blue lines totalling 31 route-km with 53 stops and a combined fleet of 61 trams
This map is not-to-scale, and some relative distances are very distorted:
Today, the first of August, was a big day for me and other senior citizens who use public transportation, effective today, free thoughout Israel for citizens over 65, and I’m 90. The same plastic card is used, and converted electronically for me at the Central Bus Station.
Dave:
Was that the cap I sent you several years ago? It looks nice on you.
Ed Burns
Free fares over 65 but not visitors?
Unsure about visitors but think not, since the various monthly passes are available only for citizens and registered forreign students. Corection: 75-and-over. 65 - 74 continue with half-fare. Half-fare also applies to registered students, including foreign students (who must also sign-up for sick-fund insurance and then receive treatment when required.) That being the case, I believe a visitor 75-and-over, who is a student at a University or Yeshiva, could get the free-transportation card. 65-74 half-fare, including an appropriate monthly pass.
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News from yesterday,
The Jerusalem City Planning unit of the Municipality has started
their project to build a METRO in Jerusalem. The planning has begun.
The current project to build 9 light-rail lines ( electric trams) that criss-cross the city and
some distant suburbs is now fully in place and three lines are under construction.
Never-the-less by 2030 the city engineers know that Jerusalem, with a population of
between 1.5 to 1.8 million residents and over 450,000 tourists will out-grow the light-rail
Take a ride on our light rail line:
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The previous post really belongs on bthe Tel Aviv Metro thread. And we will use the direct connection at the Tel Aviv Arlozoroff Station, not requiring the bus between Israel Railways and the Red Light Rail Line.
But this post is prompted by a more serious matter. The Amunition Hill, Givat HaTachmoshet Station is the one closest to my Ma’alot Daphna Apartment, and I use it regularly, with a five-minute walk or two three-or-four-stop bus connections to my apartment, and two bus lines to the University. (Both the University and Ma’alot Daphne will have light-rail stations when current construction is completed. The following is from today’s on-line Jerusalem Post:
An attempted stabbing attack was thwarted at a light rail station near Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem on Sunday evening, with the woman suspected of attempting to carry out the attack reportedly shot at the scene, according to initial reports.
Israel Police chief Kobi Shabtai arrived at the scene shortly after the incident.
The consortium of Dan, Denya Cebus and Spanish company COMSA will build and operate the line between Gilo and Ramot.
From Steve Sattler, trabnslated from Globus
The JTrain consortium has been chosen as the winning bid in the tender to build the Jerusalem light rail Blue Line, the MOF, MOT and Jerusalem Municipality have announced. The JTrain consortium is comprised of construction company Danya Cebus, public transport company Dan and Spanish infrastructure company COMSA. The project will be built using the Public Private Partnership (PPP) method with JRail building, operating, maintaining and financing the project.
I appreciate Gramp’s wishes for my safety (Cox Birney thread), and believe a reply is appropriate,
I did check the English Language Israel Railways website. I’m sure services are curtailed, if only because of many reservists being called to active duty, Also Ashdot and Ashgkelon are fairly close to where fighting was taking place. But there was no evidence of this on the website. Probably because the one who posts the notices is also on active duty.
If any missiles were fired at Jerusalem, they must have been caught by
the Iron Dome early-on, because there have been no air-raid alarms.
I also checked the Hebrew and English Light Rail websites and found nothing related to the war effort.
I believe the service is regular, but with longer headways, because of fewer operators available.
Used the light rail twice today, and headways and operation were noirmal. But patronage about 1/3 normal for times of day.
The Arab buses appeared normal with normal patronage.
Egged seemed to provide half the service, with headways doubled. The Superbus line that overlaps Egged seemed be entirely out. Jerusalem local, no experience recently with intercity. On one mid-day Egged bus, I was the only passenger.
And as I starterd to post, I heard air-raid sirens for the first time, and then several booms. Local defenses must have brought down the missels. The particular Yeshiva building where I am tyoing is of stone with a wood-and-heavy-shingles roof. No specific shelter is nearby, and so I just continued posting when I heard the sirens,