In the video: the inauguration of the light rail between Jerusalem and Savidor station in Tel Aviv (photo: Yotam Ronan)
New-Old Transport Minister Miri Regev is threatening to cancel the public transport routes on road number 1, promoted by her predecessor Merav Michaeli, and the public transport routes in Ayalon and the coastal road.
Regev ordered the head of the Public Transportation Authority to reexamine the need for the three lanes.
"Getting stuck in traffic and seeing an empty public transportation route is not in my school. If the route is not used by enough buses, money should be added to have more, or cancel it."
She returned to the office.
Regev (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)
Regev, who returned to the Ministry of Transportation yesterday, said that "I will advance the reforms I started. We must improve the interface with citizens and connect the State of Israel with trains, from Kiryat Shmona to Eilat. Traffic jams are a disturbing issue, they waste time and harm the economy. There are no magic solutions to this. So that people If they no longer have a private car, they must get better public transportation."
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Regev also announced that she will oppose funding the metro from state funds until the connection between the periphery and the center is addressed.
"The Dankel light rail network under construction is supposed to provide a solution to the congestion, together with the bicycle path project, the Havnidan. Under these conditions, there is no reason to add another rail network. If there is no solution to connect the State of Israel, I will oppose the further promotion of the project. We must not do only what is easy, we must think A decade ahead."
"The Prime Minister spoke to me about the establishment of lightning-fast bullet trains that will connect the State of Israel across its length and breadth, from Kiryat Shmona to Eilat. Connectivity and connectivity are back on the table after being suspended for the past year, connecting to central transportation centers that will be reached by various routes and bicycle and scooter paths.
We need to establish more public transportation centers integrated with commerce, so that people can buy coffee and go to the supermarket on the way home."
Ferry to Aviv?
Regev also announced that it has two projects on the table that it had initiated in the past, and which were canceled during the Michaeli era on the recommendation of the professional ranks: a sea shuttle to Tel Aviv from the north, which professional officials estimated would be too slow and without economic viability, and a train on wheels, which is manufactured in China and does not meet Israeli standards.
"I say to the NTA and Netivi Ayalon, now go back to work on these projects.
In the end, clerks are just clerks, and legal advisors are just advisors.
We came to govern to deliver the agenda on which we were elected.
" Regev also said that she would promote the establishment of the complementary airport to the Nabatim in Nabatim, an option that the professional committee established by Merav Michaeli did not recommend, and which the Ministry of Defense opposes.
"We must strengthen Netavg, Ramon and Haifa and work to establish a complementary field.
In the previous term I decided to establish a field in Nebatim after ten years of dragging my feet.
The field will be brought forward soon, because the airport is shy of reaching full capacity by the end of the decade. The country needs another airport."
The metro station in Tel Aviv (photo: official website, Tel Aviv)
Regev said that she would return the regulation requiring the installation of a system to prevent forgetting children, which Michali led to cancel, on the grounds that it does not have the programming and that it is too expensive.
From an inspection that Walla carried out with the cancellation of the regulations when Michaeli took office, it became clear that before the cancellation and towards the entry into force of the regulations, the prices of the systems skyrocketed and ranged between NIS 299 and NIS 500.
There were also other and cheaper systems, but these - how convenient - did not meet the standard of the Ministry of Transportation.
Since the "cancellation" of regulations, these prices have crashed.
And the prices of most systems were between 150 and 250 shekels.
When only four systems cost between 250 and 350 shekels, one system costs over 350 and another over 450 shekels.
In the previous round of regulation, the Ministry of Transportation admitted that parents' response to the regulation was extremely low.
At the time, at the end of July 2021, about a week and a half before the regulations came into effect, only about 50,000 kits were purchased out of the 800,000 expected by the ministry.
That is - only 6.25%.
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