Demonstration against the light rail

At 8 AM on 14 March a protest is planned at the Har Herzl end of Jerusalem's light rail line. According to the poster, users protest crowding, lack of seats -- especially for the old and infirm -- lack of buses along Sderot Herzl (the lines that used to go that route were replaced by the train), infrequent service (it is, indeed, slower than the buses, and they went to more places), and impolite conductors (transfer from bus to light rail is only with a ravkav card, which confuses people used to buying a ticket on a bus and transferring with that paper ticket to another bus annd leaves them open to a fine; plus the machines that read the ravkav do not always work).

Copyright 2012 Jane S. Fox