Carriages
Carriages (or cars) for Jerusalem's light rail wait not far from the Hebrew University's Mt Scopus campus and Hadassah Har HaTsofim.
I'm told the new mayor suggests the light rail system is an overly expensive boondoggle. Throwing good money after bad is not an action to be undertaken lightly, but the inconvenience of laying the tracks is so great that Jerusalemites feel they deserve some increase in convenience sometime.
Today the bus ride from the central bus station to the shouk (about a 7 minute walk if you don't hurry) took 35 minutes. In Jerusalem a severe jam makes you wonder if there's been an attack, but no sirens were heard, vehicular traffic flowed from the other direction (much of it coming from a feeder road), and the sidewalks were full of pedestrians walking normally towards the bus station and towards the shouk. Jaffa Road's constriction to two lanes was the culprit.
Abandoning light rail would require paying to fill in excavations. I suppose the rails would bring a good price for scrap. The decorative bridge, with its abstract David's-harp-flying buttress, which the last mayor insisted would be as symbolic of Jerusalem as the Eiffel Tower is of Paris, would be Israel's bridge if not to nowhere at least to no purpose.
Copyright 2009 Jane S. Fox
I'm told the new mayor suggests the light rail system is an overly expensive boondoggle. Throwing good money after bad is not an action to be undertaken lightly, but the inconvenience of laying the tracks is so great that Jerusalemites feel they deserve some increase in convenience sometime.
Today the bus ride from the central bus station to the shouk (about a 7 minute walk if you don't hurry) took 35 minutes. In Jerusalem a severe jam makes you wonder if there's been an attack, but no sirens were heard, vehicular traffic flowed from the other direction (much of it coming from a feeder road), and the sidewalks were full of pedestrians walking normally towards the bus station and towards the shouk. Jaffa Road's constriction to two lanes was the culprit.
Abandoning light rail would require paying to fill in excavations. I suppose the rails would bring a good price for scrap. The decorative bridge, with its abstract David's-harp-flying buttress, which the last mayor insisted would be as symbolic of Jerusalem as the Eiffel Tower is of Paris, would be Israel's bridge if not to nowhere at least to no purpose.
Copyright 2009 Jane S. Fox
Labels: transportation
posted by Jane S.Fox at 2:09 PM
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