Occupancy is limited to 50% of the passengers and there is no reinforcement in the IDF. • A female soldier had to pay 500 shekels per taxi to reach the base. • Report in response: "A point solution is given"
Soldiers are waiting for the bus
Photography:
Dudu Greenspan
Soldiers serving in the center of the country and living in various places complain about long hours of commuting on the roads, lack of available buses and difficult struggles for the places, Israel Today has learned.
The big problem has arisen in recent weeks in light of the fact that bus occupancy is limited to 50 percent, and bus drivers, rightly, are usually unwilling to pick up more passengers than allowed.
"Israel Today" has learned that a female soldier who lives in Kiryat Gat and serves in the center of the country paid about NIS 500 per taxi after five buses passed her.
Another soldier who lives in one of the localities near B'Shlosha is required to be shaken for about three and a half hours on the road every day, in each direction of travel.
A soldier who lives on the streets and serves in the center noted that the journey takes more than two hours "if at all the buses stop and pick you up," and other soldiers note that from Jerusalem and Modi'in it takes more than an hour and a half in each direction.
"Although fifty percent occupancy is allowed on the buses, the buses are often blown up most of the time, and there is still no room," the soldiers noted in frustration.
The IDF spokesman said in response:
"The IDF is increasing the means of transportation through the transportation system all days of the week to the places required as needed and against the requirements of the units. Requests received are processed immediately, and a point solution is provided."
