בTonight's city council meeting, Mayor Yona Yahav pledged that by the end of 2018 Yaffe Nof will begin the construction of the road that will connect Kabir to Neve David. The words were said in response to the question of council member Sharit Golan Steinberg. At the council meeting, the council members approved the mayor's quarterly report. In the quarterly report, next to the section "construction of new roads from the Carmel ridge to the west", it is written that there is still a need to approve the budget for implementation.
Golan Steinberg asked to understand whether there is a need to re-approve the roads, which have already been approved (the road from the neighborhood of Kabvir to Neve David and from Ramat Eshkol to Ramat Begin), and Yahav replied that there is no need to approve the plan but only to approve the budget.
The road that will connect Ramat Eshkol to Ramat Begin should ease traffic congestion on Freud Road. Residents of the Ramat Begin neighborhood claimed that the road would harm the quality of life in their neighborhood and put residents at risk and went all the way to the Supreme Court in an attempt to prevent the construction of the road. The Supreme Court ruled that there is no obstacle to paving the road, but in practice the road has not been built and those who wish to go up from the coastal road and from Mtm to the estate can only do so via the Freud road. If the road connecting Ramat Eshkol to Ramat Begin had been built, everyone who wanted to reach Ramat Begin, Almogi, Golda, Dania, and more would turn right at the Ramat Eshkol junction and the traffic load from Ramat Eshkol to the Horev car park would decrease significantly. In practice, for years the road was not built. In recent years, the traffic load has decreased somewhat due to the opening of the tunnels, but there is still sometimes a load in the afternoon hours Heavy traffic, which could have been avoided by opening the road.
It should be noted that in July of last year, city engineer Ariel Waterman said in an interview with the Chai Pa reporter that within a year the construction of several roads will begin, which will connect the ridge to the slopes of Carmel. Vetterman explained that one of the lessons from the big fire in the city in November 2016 is that a double exit is needed from every neighborhood in order to prevent a disaster when trying to evacuate a residential neighborhood. In practice, a year has passed and they still haven't started paving the roads.
