The cable car brings thousands of guests and visitors to the University of Haifa and the heart expands to see them wandering between the buildings, watching the view of the bay and visiting the museum. During Passover you can see many of the religious public, some of them ultra-Orthodox, using the cable car as a tourist attraction.
The university, which has suffered for many years from the problem of accessibility and availability to the community, has the opportunity to finally bring the wider public closer to Mechmania. It is also well organized and provides visitors with a tour app and explanations about the landscape, the museum is revealed about its treasures, and the ivory tower welcomes its guests.
Among these, there is a large share of ultra-Orthodox families, who flock to the cable car from Ashdod, Bnei Brak, Elad and Hazor, and perhaps this direct exposure to the university will also occur among their children, who aspire to one day come and rely on its students.
In the meantime, we must remember to praise the late Adam Ringer, who dreamed and was convinced of the need for a cable car, and the Ministry of Transportation for the implementation. The university may be the main beneficiary of this addition to the Haifa landscape.
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Cable car = white elephant. To photograph it as a tourist attraction in the opening week that coincides with Pesach is to throw sand in the eyes of the public.
Passover will end, and this cable car will stand twice as white, accumulating huge deficits of expensive maintenance, operation and insurance.
This is not a tourism vision or a transportation solution. It is a white elephant, which will not ride in the winter winds of the winter semester, and will be suffocating in the summer without air conditioning.
A white elephant that, unlike the buses, will not drop the students around the Technion campus near the faculties. A white elephant that takes longer than
A bus coming down Dori road. A white elephant is unnecessary, ugly, cumbersome, expensive, unnecessary.
It's nice that you took a picture at the opening, when the people of Israel are looking for every attraction, even the smallest, in their tiny country, under the tweezers. Find the cable car and the Carmelite in Haifa. Well, so here it has a use. Will tourists come to this cable car as a routine? No. Is there anything to do on the university campus? Yes, but it does not market tourism and does not need to engage in tourism.
The Haifa municipality has neglected the potential (that word again, what to do) of tourism in Carmel Park. Instead of building on the university as an attraction, everything is neglected: the aviary is neglected, the roof of the main building is neglected (empty, there is not even a visible signage), the Hecht Museum remains a whim for connoisseurs only, the Carmel Park and Hai Bar are not marketed at all, and what remains are a few buses that sometimes stop On the way to Moharka and the 'Druze villages' there too, there are not too many authentic experiences and they are not really engaged in promoting tourism, because it is not really the livelihood of Dalit El Carmel and its neighbors - the nurseries and renovation businesses bring in many times more money.
I don't understand Dr. Prof. Ben Artzi's enthusiasm for the cable car. After all, he also knows that the majority of the university's faculty will continue to come from Kiryat by private car and they have not eliminated a single parking space on campus. He also knows that students will continue to arrive in hundreds of cars in the parking lots opposite, because they then work at the And it is much more convenient for them to come by car. He also knows that the students from the Nazareth area receive direct transportation to the campuses and do not need to go to the Gulf Central and take a cable car, which adds half an hour more than a direct bus that picks them up every day. So what's the excitement about, my dear, I'd love to understand.
They threw NIS 300 million on an unnecessary means of transportation, which may be used by families for a small trip to the ridge during some Israeli holidays. Is the heart expanding? No, we are heartbroken by this waste. If they had invested these 300 million shekels in the construction of the Hecht Museum as a magnificent building, the development of a visitor center for the Carmel Park and a Druze heritage center, maybe tourists would really come to the campus. The cable car is not dead, but definitely extremely stupid.
As the number of passengers decreases, the pigs will be able to travel freely from their original home to Tsek Post. Expanding horizons.
To all the clowns...note that all the thousands who come are ultra-Orthodox!!!!! Try to run it on Saturday and there won't be a single passenger on this cable car!!!! I'm ultra-Orthodox and I was there the other day and there was a problem on the way back for about 15 minutes until they fixed the problem. Most of the passengers were ultra-Orthodox like me. If not the ultra-Orthodox, there wouldn't be this article about thousands of people traveling by cable car.
Indeed, it was a great trip to the university (and the Hecht Museum).
Sdera tunnel + cable car = 40 minutes drive from Tel Aviv station (center) to the Technion.
With the addition of an international airport, the ranking of the Technion and the university will increase significantly (the ranking is based, among other things, on the number of international students).
Pay attention to the name of the late Adam Ringer, the great dreamer of mass transportation by cable car, as an example
in Hermon and Rosh Hankara.
Successfully. Good news. Kosher and happy Passover and times for joy. A pleasant evening.
It's just a pity that the operators of the cable car were not properly prepared for the mass influx to the "Luna Park for 6 shekels"
Which caused chaos in lines, urgency and chaos that left a bad taste and detracted from the pure pleasure of floating over the most beautiful city in Israel
Long queues don't have to be chaotic, and can exist without urgency and chaos.
It's just a shame that the guards think it's a secret military camp. Why do they even have to have guns? What do you keep there?
Have you ever seen a guard with a container of soap bubbles?
Good luck in honoring the operation of the beautiful cable car in our lovely city, Haifa, led by the mayor of Haifa, Dr. Einat Kalish-Rotem. I only have one request: not to operate the cable car on Shabbat, because it is forbidden to desecrate the Sabbath. In my presence. I will have the honor to board it and travel through Haifa from the university to Haifa Bay.
The cable car runs on electricity and not on a combustion engine, so there is no prohibition to run it on Shabbat.
After the initial enthusiasm there is no doubt that the cable car will be a failure. From nowhere to nowhere, neither a transport tool nor a tourist tool. what a miss
Haifa became Austria, a cable car on one side and a cable car on the other. The hope is that if the initial enthusiasm subsides the two cable cars will not look the same ie deserted.
Kudos to the heads of the university and the Technion, who understood the importance of the cable car for these institutions, and gave their hand to promote the project, even in days when various parties did not believe in it and tried to torpedo it. To remind all of us, the initiative for the cable car was first raised 30 years ago!! Shana, was introduced during the time of Mayor Amram Metzna and taught over the years by Mayor Yona Yahav.
I believe that the city of Haifa will get out of the cable car as the late Adam believed in it and did not let go of his actions. A beautiful gift for all of us for Passover.
Dina Ringer (Adam's wife)
The Names Committee will know how to perpetuate the name of a deceased person - both on a sign and by naming a cable car station after him...
Censorship again. What is the red Haifa and censorship again on Tikva about the censorship. It is red hot.
Success has many fathers. But let's be fair for a moment, the real father is the one and only Yona Yahav and no one can take that away from him.
Really honor Yahav. Do good things for Haifa..
If you want to increase the tourist attraction, you can make bicycle routes (singles) that go down from the university to Nasher and allow bicycle tourists to use the cable car like "on ski slopes"
who go up again and start another route again
I hope they will be able to take advantage of the amazing view for the benefit of tourism and establish cafes and restaurants on the mountain.
Everywhere in the world it is capped for tourism and observations.
What is more beautiful than eating breakfast or having a drink in the evening in front of this view.
Time will tell if we will make some progress or remain an old city tired of the promises of politicians without a vision.
And congratulations on this crazy project
As a former Haifai, I visited Yaffe Nof street this week and was amazed that there were no cafes on the street with the amazing view. Haifa continues to be frozen and I cry about it
Haifa is Europe and another cable car and luxury ships in the port will add to this feeling even more.... On this occasion if it was possible to get rid of refineries and oil tanks, then we would be ranked world class in a good place. Blessings to those involved in the craft!
You're right... the cable car is the beginning of something wonderful
..just let them know how to continue and develop..and not stop here...develop Hadar..the market...come on what are you waiting for? This is how you generate income for the city....this city is still sleeping...may it start to wake up..
It's a shame that the attraction will be closed on Shabbat because of our mayor who made agreements with the religious.
Haifa is a city that has public transportation and it would be good if the cable car also worked on Shabbat for the use of the travelers who come to Haifa.
I sold the car three years ago and since then I just don't get anywhere except for work, neither in the middle of the week nor at the end.
There is not a single line in this city that is not a stretch of half a day plus physical training and a map orientation game, as if we were on a beret trip.
You have to climb mountains, skip hills and wear cartilage to get on a bus line that will drop you over a kilometer from where you need to be and within an excruciating hour before or after.
The most amazing thing about this story is that I don't have money for a smartphone that allows me to charge Rabbi Ko, so every 1st of the month I have to start looking for a kiosk in the city that will help
Thanks to Yossi Artzi for mentioning the person and the gifted engineer who initiated the cable car, the late Adam Ringer.
As head of the construction department at the Technion, I supervised the project for about fifteen years. And I will testify that without the determination of Adam Ringer this project would not have passed the barrier of resistance at the Technion.
It is appropriate that you find a way to mention Adam Ringer's name at the Technion and University stations.
The cable car is the fulfillment of part of Herzl's vision that he wrote in his book Altneuland that cable cars would travel between the sea and Carmel.
* Adam Ringer's initiative began and was accompanied by the vigorous support of Mayor Amram Metzna.
Sorry thanks to Klish for her divine vision
who will? This is Yahav's project. Cliché only knows how to sabotage initiatives, destroy, and cancel.
It's just a shame they skipped the city of Haifa
Thanks to Yona Yahav for the Zel cable car, to put it mildly. who failed to understand that the cable car would be a profitable attraction. Now all that's left is to throw away the cliché and create more attractions at the Heliona station, for example restaurants, cafes and a combined ticket to the Carmel Park, and of course also operate on Shabbat as Shihav planned
Anyone who laughed at me when I said that Klish doesn't understand how to turn the lemon (the cable car) into lemonade (a tourist attraction) is now welcome to eat the hat.... As usual, Klish and Tzuk understand nothing about tourism and business and no wonder they don't know how to generate income for the city and the municipality in any field. The university can also leverage this attraction, especially on weekends and holidays. What's wrong with developing cafes and attractions for children in front of the view of Haifa, Carmel and the bay....?
Very nice. But in my opinion we will find that on normal days the number of users will be lower than expected, for example during exam periods when the Technion and the University are deserted.
It would have been better to place stations near residential neighborhoods and not in the middle of a Dori road.
There is a huge project in planning at the quarry in Nesher Dam, there will be commercial and residential areas that will be directly connected by a bridge to the station in Dori
But we must not forget that there is also a very large staff at the university and at the Technion that even without studies the staff comes to work. And from my experience the lines to the university and the Technion from the center of the bay 141 142 always run into traffic jams. The cable car, in my opinion, is excellent, it will be even on a normal day when there are no school holidays
It is true that there is a large staff on both campuses, but they do not necessarily come from the heart of the Gulf, so for most of them it is less relevant. Not to mention that at the Technion, for example, the cable car station is located at the end of the caboose, so those who don't work in one of the 3-4 nearby buildings will have to walk (especially those located in buildings up the mountain) and who wants to start the day covered in sweat? And on the same subject - the thought of fifteen minutes in a non-air-conditioned, glass van, with 10 other people, in the summer? For some reason it doesn't appeal to me, not sure why...
heart warming. A happy attraction. There is something to see in Haifa.
Only good things, to be. .Happy holiday.
We can also thank Yona Yahav who had the vision
It's really not him, they talked about it long before him
vision?? The cable car skips over me, a resident of Neve Shaanan. Like the matron who doesn't enjoy her. What public transportation development was done for Neve Shanan during the Yahav period?
The cable car crew forces all passengers arriving from the Gulf to get off at the university and forces them to re-stand in the endless line for their return. It is not certain that all those photographed actually visited the university
Successfully.
in tourism and as a means of transportation for students.
Reduce traffic jams and solve parking problems...
Which traffic jams exactly?