Tel Aviv Subway
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The Tel Aviv Subway is an as-yet-unbuilt light rail/metro system long planned for Israel's largest metropolitan area.
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[edit] History
A subway system was first planned in the mid-1960s, and in 1967 a station at the Shalom Meir tower was inaugurated in the presence of then Prime Minister Golda Meir. However, financial difficulties forced the abandonment of the project, and Shalom Meir remains the only subway station in Tel Aviv, disconnected from other transport links.
[edit] Back on track
In 2000, newer and more plausible plans for a subway system in Tel Aviv were unveiled. Today, the first 22 km Red Line has already been approved, with excavation due to begin in late 2008-2009. It is expected to become operative in Q1 2014. In December 2006, MTS officially was awarded the contract for the Red Line of the subway. The MTS group consists of Africa Israel, Siemens of Germany, the Egged Bus Cooperative, CCECC - a Chinese infrastructure company, the Portuguese infrastructure firm Da Costa Soares, and the leading Dutch transportation company HTM.
Tel Aviv is expected to become the fourth city in the Middle East to boast a subway system. Haifa was first with the Carmelit in 1959, while Cairo's system opened in 1987. Dubai's planned subway system is expected to be the third when it opens in 2009.
[edit] Planned lines
[edit] Red Line
About 10 km of the 22 km Red Line is to be built underground, with the remaining overground segment constructed in a light rail/tram format. It is to have 33 stops, 10 of which would be underground, with an average distance of 500 metres between them. The average distance between the overground stops would be 1km. The line would run from Bat Yam in the southwest, through Jaffa and central Tel Aviv, and carry on to Petah Tikva, through Ramat Gan and Bnei Brak. An interchange is planned for Tel Aviv Central railway station. It has been forecast that by 2020, 100 million people would be using this line annually.
Stations (underground in italics): Nissenbaum, HaAmal, Kaf Tet BeNovember, Yoseftal, Bar Ilan, Balfour, Zhabotinsky, Rothschild, HaAztmaut, Machrozet, HaBesht, Issakov, Erlich, Ben Tzvi, Salame, Elifelet, Allenby, Carlebach, Yehudit, Shaul HaMelech, Arlozorov, Abba Hillel, Bialik, Ben Gurion, Aharonowitz. From Aharonowitz, one branch continues to Shenkar, Rabin, Beilinson, Dankner, Orlov, Pinsker, Petah Tikva Central Bus Station (Terminal); another continues to Em HaMoshavot and the Kiryat Arye Maintenance Depot.
[edit] Green Line
The second or Green Line, in the approval phase, is a 14km line that would run from the west of Rishon LeZion northwards through Holon to central Tel Aviv. Only its Tel Aviv segment would be underground. Expected annual passenger forecast is 50 million by 2020. A proposed extension of the line would run underground through central Tel Aviv's Ibn Gabirol Street to the northern neighbourhoods and the Yarqon River.
Stations (underground in italics): Carlebach, HaRakevet, Levinsky, Har Tzion, Kibbutz Galuyot, Abu Kabir, Gitit, Tzomet Holon, Kugel, Sokolov. From Sokolov, one branch continues to HaHistadrut, Golda Meir, Barkat, Menachem Begin, Moshe Dayan, Holon Darom, Kenyon HaZahav, Rishon Letsion; another continues to Krause, Serlin, Geulim, Betzalel, HaMelacha, Mifratz Shlomo, HaMerkava, and the Holon Maintenance Depot.
[edit] Yellow Line
The third, or Yellow Line is in the planning phases. It would be a mostly overground tram line, 24 km in length, connecting Kefar Sava and Tel Aviv via Ra'anana, Herzliya and Ramat Ha-Sharon. A possible extension of this line would run alongside the coastline of Tel Aviv, as an underground system, and connect to the Red Line in the Rothschild Boulevard area.
[edit] Purple Line
The fourth, or Purple Line, also in the planning phase, is envisaged as a 12 km line from Tel Aviv to Qiryat Ono. Most of it would be overground.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- NTA - Tel Aviv Subway developer, builder and operator.
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