The protest returns to the street • Is it possible to stop the steep price increase in the Carmel tunnels?
(Live here with the protest against the prices in the Carmel tunnels) - The Carmel tunnels, which were opened for travel in 2010, continue to raise prices, with the rate increasing every year, and this year even by a larger amount than ever. What is the thing that allows the operators and will the protest succeed in changing the move.
► Ruti Benin - Carmel Tunnels Protest • Watch
What was signed in the contract?
The Carmel Tunnels project is a project designed, financed, established and maintained by the Carmelton Group Ltd., under government supervision using the "build-operate-over" (BOT) method. The method is a public-private partnership for project financing, in which a private entity, in this case the Carmelton Company Receives a concession from a public body (the state) to finance, plan, build and operate a public facility for a fixed period. Therefore, during the concession period, the Carmelton company has the right to collect payment from the users of the tunnels in accordance with the conditions signed in the contract between the two in 2006 as well as in the annexes to the concession agreement.
► Free road - clear and smooth! • Attorney Sharit Golan Steinberg, city council member at the tunnels protest • Watch
Another almost 20 years of price increases?
The agreement is supposed to end in 2042 (!) This means that the Carmelton company has the right to continue charging for the use of the tunnels for another 19 years, and unfortunately, also to raise the prices, as it is very careful to do.
► "Do for others, those who have a hard time, the hungry does not understand hunger" - Meir Saban • Watch
◄ "We pay huge sums every day, how many poor people can live on this money" • Eli Debi - Carmel Tunnels Protest • Watch
► A young woman, Nachemias, suffers from a severe disability, but cannot afford the high payment, even though the long journey weighs heavily on her • Watch
The state did not care
It should also be noted that the state could have stopped the price increase from the beginning, and perhaps even prevented it completely, if it had notified it and stated it in one of the clauses of the contract when it was signed, but since it did not take care of this, we are all paying the price for it - which is constantly increasing.
In 2010 and 2017, the price of the trip went up for subscribers and casuals the same, From 2017 onwards the situation changed and the prices were divided into subscribers and casuals and the rates were charged accordingly.
The protest in 2015 bore fruit
In 2015, when the prices continued to rise to the point of an increase of one per quarter, the struggle began to lower the price of travel in the Carmel tunnels and to freeze immigration. The struggle that started on Facebook reached the street and the former mayor of Haifa, Yona Yahav, even stood by the protesters. In the same year, the Carmelton company lowered the prices, but since then they have gone back up and up again...
► The protest that took place in 2015 - what does the agreement say? • Watch
Today Friday (20/1/22) as mentioned the protest returned to the street again in the hope of making a fundamental change to lower the prices and even to stop charging money for the use of the tunnels as in various tunnels in Israel.
Rafi Raphael Hasson -
Say, are you real in your response?
"What a harm. Let them raise the prices."
"Not in the tunnel even if there is no choice"
This will be the new slogan
Why does road 6 cross the north cost a few shekels and is much longer than the tunnel road
That's why it's important to give Haifa infrastructure projects that will boost its strength: restoring the construction of a 250-boat marina in front of Rambam
An international airport with drying routes in the sea next to the Gulf port and the construction of a terminal for 10 million passengers
A network of hiking and cycling trails in the ridge, K. Haim, the beach neighborhoods
Enlarging Bat Galim and Dedo Promenade at the expense of parking lots and building multi-story parking lots in their place.
In Jerusalem - the entrance district to the city, 3 light rail lines, tunnels and the extension of the heavy rail tunnel and another underground train station. - The state is investing over NIS 50 billion and this is before the recently approved Begin road roofing
In Tel Aviv, the state is investing NIS 50 billion in light rail, then there will be an Ayalon roof around the Arlozorov station, and in between they plan to pour 150 billion (initial estimate) on 3 more subway lines and another 5 billion on the fourth track in Ayalon.
In Haifa there are no big projects in the city. Matron lines are planned for Kiryat Ata, Carmel Castle and Acre. Beyond that, there is nothing in Haifa itself. A consequence of a lack of long-term planning and a failed transportation-urban consultation at the beginning of the term of Kalish which resulted in the cancellation of the planning for 2 metro lines, but together with it they also split up the sinking of the train around Haifa, canceled the construction of the marina in front of Rambam, canceled the option of tunneling the train instead of sinking, canceled the evacuation Echoing the Navy - it simply won't happen, there's nowhere to go. And they just approved 8 years of excavation and rebuilding of the Carmel Beach station for the express line to Tel Aviv.
What it means? that every month and year the gaps between Haifa and other metropolises are growing. that in 5 years Haifa remains far behind, while Jerusalem will receive a city that is developing by leaps and bounds and a second light rail line, and Tel Aviv an innovative city and light rail, Haifa remains far, far behind and basically has no strategic plan for its business centers or to promote its transportation infrastructure. This is the situation gentlemen
Travels in Jerusalem in many tunnels free of charge based on the Carmelton rate. I would have paid thousands of shekels for the trip if they had made draconian agreements. The agreement with Carmelton shows how we were privatized in every way.
Whoever made the agreement got a nice package.
The municipality can have a significant impact, and also behave like other municipalities in the country - giving priority to the residents of the city. For example: the maintenance of the access roads to the tunnels is the responsibility and responsibility of the Municipality of Haifa. Same as the traffic light. Always before an election year (in this case this year) there is an extensive overhaul of roads. The aforementioned treatment can be conditional on providing special conditions to the city's residents, because the maintenance is with property tax money, which the city's residents pay. There is no reason not to postpone or give low priority to access to the tunnels and/or reduce the property tax payments with the funds used for the maintenance of the access roads to the tunnels.
The best check is simply not to use
Let them eat the Aliya alone!
what is harmful raise the prices.
According to the data, the consumers of the Carmel tunnels are only increasing every year, this year more people traveled in the tunnels than last year and its predecessors, the number of subscribers also increased despite the increase in prices
You don't have to go through the Carmel crossings, we'll see them functioning without passing cars, but you the driving public cry and complain and pay, so you deserve it
I chose not to go through the tunnels. If everyone boycotts the tunnels, they won't have many choices.
It's true that the one who should have built the road is our rotten country from tax money and the money from the car tax test but it didn't happen. So don't drive on this road and stop being suckers. This is the cure for this rotten country
If they don't drive through the tunnel, they will lower prices.
The prices of the tunnel are not decreed from heaven. We have to fight it, let's not talk about the fact that it should be free.
In addition, Wiz should be required to change his default to passing through the tunnel and require approval for this from the innocent passenger who does not know the road and knows how to bypass the robbery.
I have been boycotting the Carmel tunnels for several years now; If many more do like me, they will have no choice but to lower the prices
The tunnels should be closed and the city blocked until someone comes to their senses and understands the seriousness of the situation, the tunnels should be open to the public for free, and more than that, another pair of tunnels that will cross the Carmel from the direction of Yagur, including a train tunnel, should be sealed
I haven't set foot there since 2013. Prefer to make a detour and not use their services. Between 2010 and 2013 I was their subscriber, when my car was temporarily replaced due to an accident repair I continued to use the tunnels and then I found out that I was fined NIS 1500. Even after letters and explanations, they didn't let me go and only gave me a 50% discount on the fine, even though my subscription was valid. Since then I stopped the subscription and vowed not to go through the tunnels until it was released. To this day I stand by my oath
Enough robbing enough robbing. Are you fed up!
Trying to understand one simple thing, how are the citizens in Israel divided into types??
In Jerusalem, not long ago, a huge tunnel was opened from the center of Jerusalem towards the exit from the city, and for free!!!
Citizens of Haifa are not citizens of Israel!??
The Carmel tunnels should be confiscated, this is the ultimate and immediate solution as a first step. The next step is to put pressure on the decision-makers in the Haifa municipality, whose residents pay property taxes that are among the highest in the country, to find solutions for the city's residents, mainly to exempt them from payment.
When the management of the tunnels is in the hands of greedy people, the public pays
And also when there are mayors like Yahav who joined hands with them and let the rates be set by the economic committee and without any discount for the residents of the city where the tunnels pass. Only when it hit the headlines after more increases did he make himself part of the protest and very quickly removed it because the municipality is offering free passage in the tunnels as a silence fee.