The eastern track of Israel Railways/Israel Railways
the eastern rail.
The Sharon Railway is currently closed for the sake of the connection, but they will benefit from the improvements for up to three years/Israel Routes
In two weeks, the Hasharon Railway will be closed, and hundreds of thousands of residents in Petah Tikva, Rosh Ha'Ein, Kfar Saba, Hod Hasharon and Ra'anana will once again be cut off from the Israel Railway.
When the use of public transportation is mainly a matter of habits on the part of the passengers and reliability on the part of the train, some of them will be shut down for the third time in three years: almost a year due to Corona.
Many months after cracks were discovered in the ceilings of Kfar-Saba Nordau and Hod Hasharon Sokolov stations, and now again, this time for two months.
The shutdown, which was intended to connect the Sharon railway to the eastern railway, the raising of the railway at the Ra'anana South station in order to reduce the space for boarding the train from the platform, the completion of the Herling Bridge in Bnei Brak above the railway and various maintenance works were known in advance to the Ministry of Transportation.
Despite this, the Ministry of Transportation chose to reduce the frequency of lines 567 and 149 from Kfar-Saba to Tel Aviv by 30%.
Shanhav Brandoin, a resident of Kfar Saba: "I submitted a letter of resignation to work because I simply won't have a way to get there. I work at Ramat Hay'il in Tel Aviv, a 22-minute train ride, the cancellation of the train means for me a trip of over an hour and a half on several buses."
Shai Berger, a resident of KPS, says that "I regularly travel to work on lines 567/149 to Tel Aviv and the Nordeau-Savidor train.
The frequency of the bus lines is problematic.
Assuming the line arrives on time or is not cancelled, it is always full 2-3 stops and people are already standing.
Now again there will be months without a train, which happens to us once a year in recent years, and once again we have no choice but to suffer in the absence of a reasonable alternative.
Getting to work in Tel Aviv from Kfar Saba has become terrible, slow, cumbersome and not reliable at all, and I suffer from it every day
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It allows easy and safe arrival to Tel Aviv and significantly reduces the load on the congested roads.
Currently, it is also used by many regular soldiers and reservists, who need accessible solutions to reach their camps and return home safely - the cancellation of the line for two months in combination with the reduction in bus frequency and the lack of drivers in the month of Ramadan - could lead to traffic chaos."
For some of the stations of the Sharon Railway, this is the third shutdown in three to four years/Yaniv Kalif, Yaniv Kalif
The railway says that it was no longer possible to postpone the works to connect the eastern track, and that they cannot be carried out while leaving one of the tracks in operation.
The Ministry of Transportation says that during the track closure, shuttles will be operated from the Kfar Saba, Hod Hasharon, and Raanana stations to the train station in Herzliya where it will be possible to board trains to the south or north, and that at the same time, shuttles will be operated between Rosh Ha'Ein and Tel Aviv Savidor Merkaz and Kiryat Aryeh.
Passengers from Petah Tikva and Kiryat Aryeh will be directed to use the red line of the light rail.
The Ministry of Transportation refused to comment on the reduction in the frequency of the lines to Kfar Saba, but stated that reinforcements are planned for some of the lines that provide an alternative solution to the train.
According to the ministry, although currently about half of public transport drivers are Muslim, public transport will operate as a series during Ramadan.
"The Ramadan period is a challenging period in the entire public transportation industry, however, apart from the evening hours when demand also decreases and the three days of Eid al-Fitr, transportation is supposed to operate as a series, including the subcontractors who help reinforce the replacement public transportation lines for the train."
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