“Globes” has realized that the protection approvals for opening the extension of the Jerusalem mild rail Crimson Line have been acquired final week. Nonetheless, remaining approval from the Ministry of Transport has been delayed whereas a date is discovered for a ribbon chopping ceremony attended by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Transport Miri Regev.
Building work on the bottom was accomplished a while in the past, and the trial runs that meant that the whole line needed to be shut down earlier this month have additionally been efficiently accomplished, and the protection approvals have been issued by the German firm that awards such licenses. The Jerusalem transportation grasp plan crew answerable for constructing the Jerusalem mild rail had deliberate to open the extension yesterday (Tuesday) however the trains stay parked within the depot and passengers can not use the extensions to Hadassah Ein Kerem within the south and Neve Yaakov within the north.
Work full and the opening date postponed repeatedly
The Jerusalem mild rail Crimson Line was opened to the general public in 2011. The 14 kilometer line stretches from Pisgat Ze’ev within the north through Jaffa Street by town heart to Mount Herzl within the south. In 2009, the Jerusalem District Committee permitted the extension of the road from Moshe Dayan Boulevard in Pisgat Zeev to the Neve Yaakov neighborhood with 4 new stations, and some years later, the plan to increase the road from Mount Herzl to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital was additionally permitted, with the development of eight further stations. The mission was delayed for a few years as a result of a dispute between the state and the earlier concessionaire, CityPass, till it was changed by a concessionaire comprising Israeli firm Shapir Engineering and Spain’s CAF, which started development work in 2021.
Since then, the opening dates for the road extensions have been postponed a number of instances. July 2023 was the unique opening date, after which a brand new date was agreed upon, which was additionally postponed as a result of battle. The extension was then as a result of open on the finish of 2024.
When the trial runs started earlier this month, the Ministry of Transport estimated that the road would open to passengers on February 21, final Friday. Certainly, the day earlier than, the protection permits – these in Tel Aviv that delayed the operation of the practice for a lot of months – have been acquired, and the Jerusalem practice was able to function.
The Ministry of Transport demanded a couple of extra completions and the opening date was revised to yesterday, however even then the tracks on which the work had been lastly accomplished remained empty. The ministry desires to open the extensions in a ceremony attended by Regev and Netanyahu, so in the meantime passengers on the extensions should wait till the ribbon is minimize.
The Ministry of Transport responded, “Opposite to your declare, the worldwide controller’s report from Germany on the operation of the sunshine rail extensions solely arrived Monday evening. The report has roughly 200 pages and the common course of contains an in-depth evaluation of the report and its conclusions, together with verifying implementation of the report’s conclusions in observe.
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“As for the opening date, as is customary worldwide, in a brand new system, the operation is carried out on days when demand is low with a view to guarantee a protected and gradual begin of exercise. This has been the case in all operation occasions to this point in Jerusalem, and due to this fact Friday was chosen because the operation date. There isn’t any room for compromise on issues of safety.”
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on February 26, 2025.
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