Railway 431 Bridge over Highway No. 1 whose work has been stalled for five months/Odi Etzion
A harsh letter from the movement for the quality of government regarding the ongoing delay in completing the 431 railroad bridge over highway number 1 at the Daniel interchange.
Reminder: For half a year, the Daniel Interchange on Highway No. 1 Gesher Gidam has been under construction, Regev Shamiri stopped its completion at the last minute because the work was planned to be carried out on Shabbat, in order to reduce traffic disruption on one of the main roads in the country.
Since August, the bridge has stood over the Jerusalem-Tel-Aviv road, without a date for its completion, when the opening date of the track between Jerusalem and Shefala has already been postponed for a year.
"An administrative authority that exercises governmental authority must take into account relevant considerations, and those only. It must be based on substantive considerations only and avoid extraneous considerations. To the extent that the Minister of Transportation's decision to refrain from connecting the parts of the bridge stems from political pressures exerted on it, and not from substantive considerations concerning the promotion of a project that has been invested in A lot of money and intended to serve many sections of the country's citizens - after all, this is an invalid decision motivated by extraneous considerations," attorneys Tomer Naor, director of the legal department, and Rotem Babli Dvir, director of the association's administrative litigation department, wrote to Regev.
The unfinished bridge.
Regev stopped the works because of an appeal by ultra-Orthodox Knesset member/Walla! system, Udi Etzion
According to them, "fundamental wisdom is in administrative law, because the public authority has the duty to act with appropriate speed - which means to act to fulfill its powers on a reasonable schedule. As part of its duty of loyalty to the public and from the duty of fairness imposed on the authority."
The two conclude: "By postponing the completion of the railway bridge, out of foreign political considerations, while seriously harming the traveling public and with a horrendous waste of public funds - the Ministry of Transportation, under your leadership, is acting even contrary to this important administrative duty imposed on it. Therefore, we would be honored to ask you to work to promote connection works The railroad bridge as soon as possible, and by considering relevant considerations for the advancement of the railroad project that will help ease traffic congestion."
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