The dismantling of Tel Aviv Central Station is underway?
Transport Minister Merav Michaeli is expected to sign the station's evacuation plan for the Panorama complex in the south of the city tomorrow (Wednesday), and residents of nearby neighborhoods lament that they did not participate and fear the consequences: high morbidity due to bus pollution, noise and environmental nuisance.
"This week we are signing a memorandum with the Tel Aviv Municipality implementing the evacuation plan of the Tel Aviv Central Station in two beats, the first in 2024 and the second in 2026. The first beat is already underway, in September there will be bulldozers in the Panorama complex to build the new terminal," she said. Michaeli this week at the conference of the economic conference of which she participated.
"Transferring the hazard to another place": Central Station, Photo: Yehoshua Yosef
Residents of nearby neighborhoods - Neve Ofer, Tel Kabir and Tel Giborim - fear the consequences of moving the station near their homes:
According to data from the Ministry of Health, cancer rates, lung complications and asthma are up to twice as high in Neve Sha'anan
(current station location) than the Tel Aviv average.
In addition, the residents of Neve Ofer complain that no one has approached them or intentionally informed them to establish a central station for the largest metropolis in the country next to their homes, and that the minister ignores them and their requests to meet with her.
Simcha Teleyevsky, a resident of Neve Ofer and a leader in the fight against the evacuation of the station to the neighborhood, says:
"The main problem is that there is no transparency about the plan. With Michaeli things are not clear, she just ignores us. There is no plan where the buses go to the store "An environmental survey was conducted. Was there public participation? I'm not sure
. We approached Sarah in every possible way, every time we were smeared. We sent official letters, we talked to her advisers, she herself does not meet people."
"Public participation? Not sure": Michaeli, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
"Even if they do not build a closed structure (that is, even if the terminal is open) - still 5,000 buses are going to pass a day, which are going to pass here and get out of here. This is a very heavy pollution. The station does not comply with the Ministry of Health regulations The 5,000 buses a day here? "
He adds: "The transportation portfolio is one of the most complex in Israel, and I do not know what anyone else would have done enough in a year of tenure, but it seems that now at the end of his term Michaeli must present achievements to a not particularly successful tenure. To seek achievement - "I cleared Central Station."
High morbidity rates near the station, Photo: Danny Maron
So what do the residents of Neve Ofer want? That they will leave the pollution in Neve Sha'anan?
"No. We unequivocally support the evacuation of the new central station from Neve Sha'anan - but not our 'backyard'. This is a move whose whole purpose is to throw the aforementioned environmental and social hazard on another neighborhood.
We need to bring in professional planners, do an overview of transportation issues, society, the environment and then give alternatives, "Simcha explains.
The municipality's plan, which determines main transportation complexes, states that the plan is to establish a future transportation terminal at the Holon junction.
In the past, there was also talk of a terminal in Glilot.
"Scattering" the station to several terminals will reduce congestion and pollution, instead of draining them to one place.
Demonstrators against evacuation of the station, archive,
"Israel Today" has applied for a response from the Ministry of Transportation, and it will be brought when it is received.
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