Regev's U-turn: the minister will advance the metro project in Gush Dan - voila! news

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Transportation Minister Miri Regev made a U-turn regarding the future underground train in the central region, the metro project.

After announcing at the beginning of the week that it would not support the advancement of the project until the completion of a heavy rail line to Kiryat Shmona and Eilat, today (Sunday) the government will discuss a joint proposal by the Minister of Transportation and the Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich, which should give a big boost to the project.

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Regev (Photo: Reuven Castro)

The railway works in Gush Dan.

April 2021 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

According to the proposal, continuity will be applied to the metro bill that was approved in the previous Knesset in first reading at the initiative of previous Minister of Transportation Merav Michaeli, and approved for second and third reading by the National Enterprises Committee, chaired by Knesset member Yulia Malinovski (Israel Beitenu).

After the Bennett-Lapid government lost its majority in the Knesset following the resignation of Idit Silman, opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu refused to allow Likud members of the Knesset to support the approval of the law in the plenum, which led to its freezing.

Now, after winning the elections, the Netanyahu government has begun to advance the project. But The one-year delay in approving the law, which was planned to go to the second and third readings in the previous winter session, already has a price in the schedule. Haim Glick, CEO of the NTA company that plans the metro and is supposed to lead its construction, said last month that the current schedule for the project is about to start Partially in 2034 and fully only in 2037. Until a year ago, the opening date was 2032.

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