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Ben Gurion International Airport serves as Jerusalem's closest international airport. Egged bus lines and Israel Railways connect the city of Jerusalem to much of Israel, and a high-speed rail line to Herzliya via Ben Gurion Airport and Tel-Aviv was completed in 2018. Within the city, the roads, rather than the rails, are the primary mode of ...
In 2010, Nir Barkat, mayor of Jerusalem, unveiled a NIS 8 billion transportation plan for the city drawn up in collaboration with the Transport Ministry.The plan includes a new light rail line, extensions of the first phase of the red line now under construction, a series of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) routes and five new roads.
There are hundreds bus lines in Jerusalem that are a vital part of the public transportation from/to Jerusalem and whitin Jerusalem and the nearby suburbs along with the Light Rail. There are 109 Local bus line that serve all neighborhoods of Jerusalem. Few of them are night lines and lines with limited frequency.
The company has three parking garages – two in the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv, and one in Afula and one at the Jerusalem Central Bus Station. The company also operates special trips to Jerusalem employing about 20 drivers who operate 16 minibuses and 4 full-size buses. The company also operates specialty lines to transport students.
Route 6, the Trans Israel Highway, starts just east of Haifa down to the outskirts of Beer Sheva, about 200 km (120 mi). Route 1 between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and Route 2 between Tel Aviv and Haifa are well maintained highways. Route 90 is the longest road in Israel streaching from Metula to Eilat via the Jordan Valley and Arava.
As of February 2012, a plan for a 475-kilometer rail network, establishing 11 new rail lines in West Bank, was confirmed by Israeli Transportation Ministry. The West Bank network would include one line running through Jenin, Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Ma'aleh Adumim, Bethlehem and Hebron.
David Bedein (born August 31, 1950) is an MSW, a community organizer by profession, a writer, and an investigative journalist. [1] In 1987, Bedein established the Israel Resource News Agency, [2] with offices at the Beit Agron Int'l Press Center in Jerusalem.
The Ministry of Transport, through the transport master plan team, which oversees construction of transport infrastructure in Jerusalem in conjunction with the Jerusalem Municipality and the Ministry of Transport, completed a strategic study concluding that 2-3 underground metro lines will be needed in Jerusalem that will complement the light rail network.