At the height of summer: tomorrow (Sunday) there will be significant changes in train traffic on the coast line, precisely on the day when IDF soldiers return to bases. Due to railway works, train traffic between Haifa and Tel Aviv will be suspended.
The Israel Railways announcement stated: "The date of the works was set in advance for the summer months, when there is a decrease in the amount of travel. The 'Eastern Rail' project (which is why the changes; AG) will be an additional axis between the north, the center and the south, and will enable a significant improvement of the train service all over the country.
This, alongside a significant increase in cargo transportation, which will reduce road congestion and air pollution, and increase road safety."
Soldiers will be dragged on the road for hours
A combat soldier who spoke to Israel Hayom strongly criticizes the move: "Cutting the line in the middle is a very significant thing for a soldier. You plan everything so that you can get to the station in time, and even then there are train delays. Of course there is an option to travel by bus, but there are few Lines and the pressure is enormous. It's a real nightmare," she said.
A soldier who serves in the Golan Heights expresses enormous anger at the train: "There is no convenient transportation to the Golan Heights, the train does not take into account the soldiers who travel home on Sunday and Thursday. It is a nightmare. Soldiers are carried on buses and spread everywhere. As a soldier who comes from the center to the Golan Heights several times a week as part of his job, It's just a hard blow. I don't want to think about what citizens who travel by train every day will do. Will they take a vacation? No - they will travel in cars, or fight with me for a seat on the bus, and it will really be a burden."
Congestion on the train (those photographed have no relation to the news), photo: Yehoshua Yosef
Changes in train traffic
Israel Railways provided the following information:
Trains on the Binyamina-Rehovot/Be'er Sheva line
- will start and end their journey at Netanya station, and will not stop at Binyamina station.
Trains on the Nahariya-Modi'in line
- will be operated in a split format: between Nahariya and Neymina stations, and between Tel Aviv University and Modi'in stations.
Trains on the Nahariya-Be'er Sheva line
- will be operated in a split format: between Nahariya and Neymina stations, and between Herzliya and Beer Sheva stations.
Trains on the Karmiel-Be'er Sheva line
- will be operated in a split format: between Karmiel and Haifa Hof HaCarmel stations, and between Herzliya and Beer Sheva stations.
the changes in train traffic,
A comprehensive system of shuttles will be operated between Binyamina and Beit Yehoshua stations during all operating hours, in both directions.
In addition, the Ministry of Transportation will increase the regular bus lines, including: line 980 from Haifa Bay Central Station to Tel Aviv Svidor Center Station; Line 901 from Haifa Hoof HaCarmel Central Station to Tel Aviv Central Station (through the Tel Aviv Svidor Center Station and Tel HaShalom Station );
Line 873 from Binyamina Station to Tel Aviv Central Station (through Tel HaShalom Stations);
Line 852 from Pardes Hana to Tel Aviv Central Station (through Tel Aviv Savidor Central Stations, Tel Aviv HaShalom); and Line 704 from Hadera to Tel Aviv Svidor Central Station.
Train traffic will return to normal next Sunday, July 31.
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