From Sunday the Jerusalem mild rail Crimson Line is not going to take passengers for 5 days, as trial runs are made on the complete line with the brand new extensions to Hadassah Ein Kerem within the south and Neve Yaakov within the north. Particular bus routes shall be supplied as alternate options and the frequency of different bus routes shall be bolstered.
The present mild rail Crimson Line between Mount Herzl and Pisgat Zeev will resume operations on February 14, whereas trial runs will resume on the brand new sections between Mount Herzl and Hadassah and between Pisgat Zeev and Neve Yaakov. Offering there aren’t any final minute hitches, the complete line between Hadassah and Neve Yaakov will open on February 21, “Globes” has discovered.
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One delay after one other The Crimson Line extensions in Jerusalem has suffered one delay after one other. The road was purported to open in July 2023, however was postponed a number of occasions to November 2023, then to February 2024, after which to November 2024, and is now anticipated to lastly open in February. The delays within the challenge have been attributed to the problem of bringing consultants from overseas to Israel through the conflict, though the delays started even earlier than October 2023.
The deliberate week-long shutdown for trial runs of the brand new mild rail Crimson Line part have been initially scheduled for final month however have been postponed by the police as a result of lack of manpower to supervise busy junctions. Jerusalem Deputy Police Commissioner Oshrat David instructed the Globes Infrastructure for the Future Convention earlier this week that though there are actually sufficient staff for the town’s infrastructure initiatives like the sunshine rail Blue Line, police are holding again progress as a result of a scarcity of manpower to supervise visitors movement.
David added, “NIS 300 million was wasted within the mild rail work on the Bar-Ilan intersection within the metropolis, as a result of there aren’t any police to separate the employees and the protesters.” By this she meant the haredi demonstrations towards the work on the junction.
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