Senior Engineer warns: 10 towers in danger of collapsing due to diversion of the metro route Israel today

Could the diversion of the metro line work due to the desecration of the Sabbath lead to the collapse of buildings in Bnei Brak-Ramat Gan?

Senior engineers and constructors warn of the danger of the collapse of ten residential towers on the Bnei Brak-Ramat Gan border if it is diverted to the planned metro line in Bnei Brak, in light of the ultra-Orthodox 'opposition to work on Saturday. 

Senior engineer Israel David, one of the opponents of the diversion of the metro works, noted the achievers' towers, at 1 Yohanan Bader Street in Ramat Gan, as one of the buildings in danger: Are at the potential of constructive harm in a borderline state of service and a borderline state of destruction under any law ... Analyzing the status of existing buildings in this procedural approach puts existing buildings at potential risk, and I am convinced that when the claims of hundreds of billions of existing building owners and those who have Ownership of the plots. "  

Meanwhile, more than a thousand tenants living in Ramat Gan on the Bnei Brak border, in 10 high-rise residential towers, oppose the intention to freeze the metro line in Bnei Brak, if the works are not approved on Saturday.

Advocate Ofer Shachal addressed the Minister of Transportation, Rabbi Michaeli, on behalf of the tenants, arguing that "the way decisions are made in this project is amateurish - at least in the context of the 'Bnei Brak alternative' - and the considerations made by decision makers are unprofessional, clearly unreasonable. Ours is also outrageous and scandalous. '

In this case, according to the lawyer who applied, it is a matter of the surrender of a governing body that is supposed to be a professional, Nata and your office, to a threat from an ultra-Orthodox public "in the name of the so-called Shabbat."

In his letter, the lawyer states that there is no disagreement, in the opinion of all professionals without exception, including the Ministry of Transportation and the IDF - that the M2 metro line must pass through Bnei Brak, a city in need of this type of public transportation: .

It is also undisputed that the original design of the M2 line was indeed a line passing through Bnei Brak, with two stations serving Bnei Brak.

In the original plan, the metro line continues from the Ra'a station in Ramat Gan to Bnei Brak, to the Hazon Ish and Kahneman stations, from where line 2M continues to Petah Tikva. " 

Adv. Shahal added: "Already in May this year, a hearing was held at the Botel where the opponents voiced their opposition to diverting the line from Bnei Brak, due to the surrender to the ultra-Orthodox 'threats regarding Shabbat. The latter we learn that a decision has already been made and a decision that is completely contrary to the position of the professionals. " 

It is important to note that the execution of the tunnel work is expected to be done under the towers that were built many years before the plan and without taking into account any future excavation under them.  

The buildings painted in red are the towers at the heart of the danger:

Another opinion - Dr. Avraham Ben Ezra states: "Although Israel David's opinion describes a serious situation in the implementation of the plan in the current outline under the Ramat Gan towers, and a safety risk to the public, the actual situation is actually more dangerous due to Israel David's calculation in Ben - Ben Benin's opinion. Only 11 floors, while there are taller buildings in the complex by a large margin. "

"It is not reasonable to approve such a problematic route, and even only as an" alternative ", but it is necessary to determine the route before discussing the plan, since examining alternatives in urban planning should be done in the planning process and not in the approval process. It could be destroyed, and what could be damaged, and such knowledge would also prevent disasters. "

Also a transport transportation planner of the expert, engineer and transportation strategist Amiram Strolov and of the senior city planner Smadar Aharon, who state, among other things:

"As we deepened our opinion, our awareness of choosing the northern route alternative passing through Bnei Brak grew, both at the level of significant demand anchors and the engineering aspects of the problem of moving under residential towers. Tel Aviv and Central District Planning Institutions also recommended the National Infrastructure Committee .

"The Ramat Gan alternative is not equivalent to the Bnei Brak alternative in every possible parameter, with a number of significant parameters standing out when we come to prefer one alternative over the other.

This is an alternative that will be promoted in light of the ultra-Orthodox 'opposition to work on Shabbat in Bnei Brak.

Senior Engineer Israel David: ".... All existing structures along the strip of the Blue Line and at the margins are in a seemingly dangerous condition.

.... All existing structures along the line and its margins have the potential for structural damage. "