Yael Shanar, a member of the city council on behalf of the "Greens of Haifa" faction led by Avihu Han, writes:
Carmelia, the neighborhood where my husband's family and many of my friends live, is a wonderful neighborhood, most of the time. She is less wonderful in the morning, when she is under curfew.
With the return to school, the situation of course only worsens. Bus line 33, which takes the children of the neighborhood to the Hugim school, arrives in a minibus with few seats and with relatively low frequency. Walking to the Hugim school in our new residence is not possible, so the parents are forced to drive their children to school.
To start the day with delays and nerves
In the current situation, we get an endless line of cars during rush hour when leaving the neighborhood.
The residents of Carmelia start their day in a traffic jam, with delays and nerves. Children do not manage to get to school before the first bell even if they left the house half an hour earlier, as there are situations where the congestion starts already in the parking lot.
The situation is so bad that residents who can afford it - completely avoid leaving the neighborhood in the morning.
what can be done?
It is possible and necessary to immediately take dozens of cars off the road and make students get to school by public transportation!
Parents contacted Egged with a request to increase line 33 and replace the minibus with a bus, so that there will be more seats on the bus. According to the parents, they were referred to the municipality. More passengers - were directed to the municipality. When they contacted the municipality, they were directed back to the Ministry of Transportation and Agged, in a sort of catch 22.
Derech HaMelech for student transportation is a dedicated transportation to the educational institutions under the responsibility of the municipality, which is carried out in buses with seat belts and guarantees a seat for each student. In a reformed city, a system of transportation for students would be established, precisely for such cases, in which reinforcement of public transportation is required.
The point is that the Haifa municipality, which is responsible for the transportation of students in special education by virtue of the law, is not particularly outstanding in this area. Shamefully and unfortunately, the breakdowns in special education transportation are numerous. The municipality of Haifa currently does not have the option of establishing a student transportation system for regular education, and still - a solution must be found.
The cry must be heard
As a council member from the Green Party, I contacted Egged, and I realized that there is stiff competition for buses during the morning rush hour.
In the last term under the leadership of Einat Kalish Rotem and her coalition, all ties with the government ministries, including with the Ministry of Transportation, were burned, and the Haifa municipality today has no influence on Egged, but the cry of the parents and residents of the neighborhood must be heard and receive an immediate response.
Small things will make it easier for many
The practical solution is that Eged will immediately replace the minibus on line 33 with a bus, and add one more line at least in the morning, which will adjust its travel time to the time when school starts. That's all we want - these simple actions will make the lives of hundreds and thousands of residents easier.
The neighborhood committee adds that many residents are partners in this struggle, whose goal is to free the neighborhood from the endless traffic jams the residents face every morning. The committee votes on Three things that they wish to observe, to ease the daily difficulty:
- Extension of the line to a grade school.
- Increasing the frequency of the line, so that it will run every fifteen minutes and in the mornings every 10 minutes.
- Increasing the volume of buses by replacing the minibuses with large buses.
Any change in the road map requires approval from the Ministry of Transportation.
If you ask now, the legal advisers there will say it's a bribe for the local elections, etc.
hahahahaha strategy
you are something
It is necessary to widen the bottleneck that prevents the exit of cars, which is located at the exit from Rachel St. to Yarkon and from there to Moriah. The sidewalk at the exit from Rachel to Yarkon should be cut and vehicle travel allowed on the early part, including a ban on parking and stopping near the place from 7.00 to 9.00. Also, the time ranges for the green light at the traffic lights at the exit to Moriah should be increased during the above hours
Line 33 comes very infrequently and even then, due to the low demand, in a small minibus. It is certainly possible to consider converting the minibus into a large bus that will be enough for all the students and with a higher frequency, at least before and at the end of school.
First, Egged does not decide on the addition of buses, but only the Ministry of Transportation.
Second, one of the immediate solutions to solve the traffic jam is to pave a road down to allow at least half of the residents of the neighborhood who want to leave the city to go straight down and not get stuck in the endless traffic. This is not on the agenda, why are you opposed to it??? What will happen during a disaster when the whole neighborhood is asked to evacuate???
No western exit will solve a traffic jam in the neighborhood. 4000 vehicles will enter the Carmelia settlement and Kabir from Mehdar Alyion, Shimshon, Vardia, Shambor, Kasfari, Kiryat Sefer and try to get down through them. They will close the mounts every morning and then go up every afternoon. The neighborhoods are not prepared for this - not in Kabir with the narrow Kadima road, and not in Carmelia with the already congested exit to Moriah today. Just imagine that 16 vehicles will leave from MtM between 18-4000 p.m. trying to get out of Carmelia to Moriah and back. Multiply the traffic jams created by the Herzl School by 20. The traffic jam to Neve David will start on Zafaririm Street and continue to Neve David - and then what? You will demand an interchange?!
If there is an autonomous taxi that transports residents from every neighborhood to the Moriah axis, it will save a lot of traffic jams
We need to convince that Haifa will be a pilot of a taxi that will constantly pick up and then return to pick up on an internal route unlike line 33 that goes to Samson.
Line 33 runs every 20 minutes. The 7:XNUMX trip is made by a bus and it arrives at the Hovim school. This arrangement is already from last year! Leaving the neighborhood in the morning is difficult because the people of the neighborhood do not want a western exit from the neighborhood, an exit that will solve the traffic problem during rush hours.
Please be accurate with the facts!
No western exit will solve a traffic jam in the neighborhood. 4000 vehicles will enter the Carmelia settlement and Kabir from Mehdar Alyion, Shimshon, Vardia, Shambor, Kasfari, Kiryat Sefer and try to get down through them. They will close the mounts every morning and then go up every afternoon. The neighborhoods are not prepared for this - not in Kabir with the narrow Kadima road, and not in Carmelia with the already congested exit to Moriah today. Just imagine that 16 vehicles will get up from MtM between the hours of 18-4000 in the evening trying to leave Carmelia for Moria and back. Multiply the traffic jams created by the Herzl school by 20.
Anyone who wants more roads like this is a lunatic who doesn't understand anything about transportation.
This is just the beginning... the municipality is approving more and more projects on the Moriah axis and in the surrounding neighborhoods that all drain to the Moriah axis. All these approvals do not consider the transportation issue. Councilor Feingold is also trying to build a tower and a commercial center in Kiryat Safar square that will increase the load on the Moriah axis many times over.
Klish greatly aggravated the problem of entering Carmelia and other neighborhoods with the "20 minute move".
Since parking for 20 minutes, vehicles are constantly waiting to enter or exit the parking lots and stop traffic on the street.
The traffic light to the left from Moriah to Zfaririm is short and there used to be traffic jams only during rush hours, now it's all the time.
Because of TMA 38, 500 cars were added in the Carmelia-Heina neighborhoods. And this is also the case in Azoza, Vitkin and more.
All parking at the entrance to Sifarir should be canceled.
Make only 2-3 parking spaces parallel to the road for supply vehicles followed by the bus stop and that's it.
This will ease the traffic jams in the neighborhood.
The problem is lazy students, there are Abella and Amla who drive to the school entrance.
Start walking!
A spoiled generation, no buses and no parents in the street!
And we are talking about a kinship school, urban God, classes, etc. .
A PR article…
When I was a child Carmel was beautiful Lotus Street was not paved Zedekiah reached Boaz and the shack of my garden there was made of tin and everything was fields. what fun
The school year has started - the traffic jams have started..
Lazy parents who produce lazy children who are unable to climb 100 stairs and walk a mile. Dor agrees sweet potato..
stamp!
In my time, we walked to school or took the bus which used to take half an hour. Without Parent Transportation Ltd.
This indulgence and laziness are the causes of the unbearable traffic jams every morning in almost every neighborhood that has schools.
The problem is the residents who oppose the construction of the road that will allow an exit to Camp David/the beach road, from the western end of the neighborhood.
If they allowed the construction of such a road, all the problems would be solved.
No problem would be solved and on the contrary more difficult problems would be added
These roads will add traffic jams of thousands of vehicles from the rest of the Habs into and through the neighborhoods at all hours of the day.
We were told that the Carmel tunnels will solve all the traffic jams, realize that it only creates them. All over the world, they are stopping the 'roads and interchanges' truck and switching to smart public transportation.
rich people's problems
For the price of one apartment sold in Ramalia, you can buy 4 apartments here in Neve Paz.
Here you only fantasize about an apartment in Herzliya and your "trouble".
* In Carmelia
For the current transportation situation in Carmelia, we must first of all thank the parasitic residents of the neighborhood who wanted to get rich at the expense of their neighbors, say thank you to all the council members who voted for political considerations and out of a complete lack of understanding of what the concept of urban renewal means, thank the city engineer for neglecting and abandoning control of the engineering director in favor of a senior elected official who took care of the false TMA 38 industry, who took care of approving the demolition of every building even though it was not required, cutting down hundreds of trees unnecessarily, approving every concrete monster for extraneous considerations, a person without any minimal knowledge and understanding of city planning, a person who is capable of approving a building permit even for a protective plastic cube Children.
Also our street Kiryat Safar, we will go out 3 times a day under siege! Two Harieli and Zichron Eliezer schools operate there, and two day care centers, so it is not only closed in the morning but also around one o'clock and four o'clock.
In addition, despite the large number of children present, there is no sign at the entrance to the street limiting speed and there are no deceleration lanes except for one near the entrance to Reali,
Why is there no organized shuttle system?? Minibuses that pick up children and drive them back I am sure that most parents would be willing to participate in the financing of the transportation instead of spending hours on the spot while risking the children running between the cars,
What will fail the plan? The fact that she is so logical... the urban planner at the head of the city is not built for creative thinking, but for conflicts and firing her partners.
Yael Shanhar, you are simply a genius for the municipality to become a transportation company.
The residents of Carmelia ran for TMA 38 and got a hose! The neighborhood turned into trash!
You can also leave the house an hour earlier to avoid the traffic and drink the coffee at work.
All the best to you, my friend Yael Shanar, a member of the Haifa City Council. Strength
Only Rafi Hason can solve the problem. Why don't you run for the city authority. You're just wasted as a senior journalist
In addition, it should be mentioned:
Downhill roads will not solve the traffic jams in the ridge neighborhoods but will make them worse because hundreds/thousands more vehicles will enter them from Haifa neighborhoods trying to get down through them to the coastal neighborhoods or up through them from the coastal neighborhoods to the ridge.
Downhill roads, even if they are built, should have a barrier and be used only by public transportation that will quickly get from the neighborhoods to the Carmel Beach central station and back. Not for the private car.
Dear Eyal. Either you don't understand transportation or you lack understanding. When there are several exits and entrances the pressure is small.
Hello Perry, I understand transportation very well. You want to make Haifa Detroit or Los Angeles with huge exchangers like at Check Post and 'drops' as if it would 'spread the pressure'. This is complete bullshit. First, prioritizing the private car increases its use over the traffic lights, which is already a failure. Second, it will create congestion and traffic jams in neighborhoods that are not prepared to be a main road for thousands of other vehicles to drive through and try to enter. If we take Carmelia, Zafarir intersection, it is already a bottleneck for entering this neighborhood And just imagine that another 4000 vehicles from the ridge neighborhoods will try to enter to go down through it or through Kabir, it will be a disaster.
There is no transportation plan to the ridge.
Decisions are made based on populist pressures, or worse, the misleading of the decision-makers by a bunch of budget-sucking leeches called Yaffe Nof, who created failure after failure.
There is no thinking about the consequences and alternative solutions
The downhill roads in the winding format (as if it changes anything) will be closed during an emergency and will become death traps with hundreds of casualties and deaths like the Beit Oren road and the bus disaster.
Enough of the arrogance and conceit of the residents of Carmel and their private vehicles and the indulgence and damages they cause destruction from which there is no way back
The schools are the problem God knows for the ridge neighborhoods and they absolutely contribute to traffic jams in the morning hours.
The problem is "chicken and egg". The parents insist on driving children to the schools and kindergartens because there are no shuttles and the public transportation is not available enough and it is not available enough because it stands in traffic jams along with the lines of vehicles of the driving parents.
Therefore, the municipalities' solution is not to be nice and populist.
A. Cancellation of parking for teachers and transportation of parents on Boaz and Zedekiah Street by a barrier - entry for residents of these streets only.
Turning the Zedkiyo section near the Herzl School into an urban square without cars (right entrance to Zedkiyo-Nega only).
The parking lots on Boaz Street will be used by the owners of the houses on Zedkiyo Street adjacent to it, and not by the school's teachers.
B. Turning all the parking lots on Lotos, Haina, Zafarir and Rachel streets into blue and white.
third. The establishment of a high school for high school classes for the benefit of the residents of Kabvir-Muria-Shambor-Karmelia in the grounds of the Ammi Moria Cinema Cafe
Above a large underground parking lot below the school grounds. It will be possible to reach it by walking or by buses on the Moriah route.
d. Canceling the parking lot at the entrance to Zafarir around the shops, which delay traffic into the neighborhood.
God. Reversing the exit direction of the Shambor Lemuria neighborhood. Entering the neighborhood from whistles and exiting through the passages.
and. A shuttle bus at the National Police Station on Zafaririm Street, which is also intended for ambulances and fire engines instead of a lane of parking along the street.
Arranging an alternative parking lot - Boaz Street parking lots (owners of vehicles in Zafarir will have access to the Boaz Street checkpoint)
This is the real integrated solution to the traffic jam problem
It is simpler to add two more buses that will leave at intervals and will replace at least 25 private cars
As for section E, you are really really disconnected from the traffic jams in the Sefer Square area, so you are going to add all the residents of Shambor and all of Carmelia to them?!
And Ammi Cafe is privately owned and not by the municipality.
You should check before you write..
A barrier during school hours at the entrance to Boaz Street for street residents only is an excellent idea.
Teachers and children must get used to getting to school on foot and by bus.
The idea of closing Zadakiyo in front of Herzl without vehicles is excellent.
You can also make a kiosk with umbrellas near the spectators in the square to wait for fun.
Why only Carmelia? This problem also exists in the location of the urban e. My daughter has to travel on 2 buses because there is a shuttle once in the morning and once in the afternoon
Really important problems that require solutions.
I wanted to know what plans you come up with
For the development of Hadar..
And especially to the pioneer street
which has been neglected in all recent terms
by the last two mayors.
Transportation, lighting, cameras, parking
And the most interesting subject of the property tax... Area A, which really doesn't fit!
An important issue, which disturbs all the residents of the neighborhood, as well as other neighborhoods (only exits to the Carmel axis) and deserves press coverage - but as soon as the article was identified as a political PR article, you just ruined everything.
The problem is with people who stop and stand wherever they want
And this is a problem in almost every school
And it's been like this for years
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