(haipo) - Construction works on the access road to the Kabvir neighborhood began this morning (Wednesday 27/12/23).
The works for the construction of the access road to Kabbir begin after a long period of anticipation and are expected to last for about two years. The purpose of building the road is to create a connection between the Kabbir neighborhood, through the Carmel slopes, to Shlomo Hamelech Street in the Neve David neighborhood, thereby creating an exit from Kabbir to the southern entrances of the city.
Transition Ecology
For the first time in the city's history, an ecological crossing for animals will be established on the new road route. Also, tubers collected from the road route will be replanted in community gardens throughout the city.
The "Mahaber Kabbir" road established by the municipality through the "Yefa Nof" company will connect the Kabbir neighborhood on the slopes of the Carmel to Shlomo Hamelech Street in the Neve-David neighborhood and will serve as an additional exit channel linking the Carmel to the southern entrances of Haifa.
The duration of the work is about two years
The project, which will last about two years, includes the construction of a kilometer-long road between Shlomo Hamelech Street in its western part, and between Mor and Bona Square in the Kabvir neighborhood and will allow another exit from the neighborhood, thereby easing traffic congestion in the area and significantly improving the level of safety in emergencies. The project also includes construction of retaining walls, drainage channels, lighting and essential infrastructure.
The works will be carried out while maintaining the quality of life of the residents living in the Kabvir neighborhood and for this reason heavy vehicles will not be allowed to enter the neighborhood during most of the project period.
The unique nature of the place
Special emphasis was placed in the planning of the road on the preservation of the unique natural values in the place. For this reason, the road was even reduced in size in order to minimize the damage. Before the works begin, geophytes (tubers) will be collected, some of which will be transferred to a designated shelter garden and some will be transferred to the community gardens throughout the city. In the meantime, within the framework of the planning, a passage intended for animals was added, which will preserve the continuity of the ecological corridor between Nahal Amik and Nahal Shikh. The planning of the transition was accompanied by the environmental unit in the department of landscape planning of the municipality of Haifa and the "Nature and Gardens Authority". The execution of the works will be accompanied by an inspector of the "Nature and Gardens Authority" and the municipal ecology.
11 closed neighborhoods in Haifa
The construction of the "Mahavr Kabbir" road is the first project to enter the implementation phase as part of finding solutions to the problem of the "locked-in neighborhoods" in Haifa. In Haifa there are 11 neighborhoods that have only one entrance and one exit and are therefore called "closed neighborhoods". This situation usually results in significant movement difficulties - both at the entrance to these neighborhoods and at the congestion on the ridge axis, which is the only way out for a large part of them. In addition to the transportation-movement difficulty, there is also a safety risk in the residents' escape from them and in the flow of rescue forces to them during emergency situations.
Excellent, now also open Carmelia, the doctor and Ramot Begin towards the west
Einat Kalish froze Yona Yahav's plan to lower the connecting road through the Kachbir neighborhood. The argument was that a road must be built from every closed neighborhood, and the plan was to build all these roads at the same time. You let me down, Mayor!
In the Kabir neighborhood, there are only 3 roads - Long-Kedima, Kabir and Raan, and they are very narrow.
In the Carmelia neighborhood there are many more longitudinal roads, the population has grown a lot in recent years - why not take such a road down from it as well?
The roads in the Kabir neighborhood will not be able to accommodate the entire volume of traffic that will pass through them. There will be a terrible overcrowding here - which in itself is very dangerous in all respects! I call on all the residents of the neighborhood to oppose the construction plan, and to demand the construction of such roads from all the closed neighborhoods.
You just forgot to mention some important details:
A. The road will cost the property tax payers in Haifa about NIS 90 million.
on. We were supposed to receive all the funding for this road and other additional reductions from the imprisoned neighborhoods from the Ministry of Transportation and this included several transportation projects that would have solved the transportation problems in the Carmel Ridge for many years, but Kalish gave up this budget (NIS 1.6 billion) in a strange way at the beginning of her term. By the time she realized her dramatic mistake, it was already too late…..
And for what it is said - crying for generations 😥
Dean Dean 10 roads won't help either because they will only encourage more traffic and people will get stuck on the ridge line and on the coastal roads even more.
The time has come for us to realize that only good public transportation is the solution. Roads have destroyed many cities today all over the world roads are being removed
in favor of light rail. We need a light train on the side of the mountain from the center of Carmel to the employment and transportation centers on the Carmel coast.
Nothing else will give a real solution, everyone will get stuck at the Matam intersection or on the Moriah road on the way up/down one of the roads.
Just like Freud didn't solve anything. Just like the Carmel tunnels didn't solve anything. Just like Route 22 didn't solve anything.
One road does not herald an improvement in the transportation situation in the besieged Mount Carmel.
Oh Kabbir Kabbir, in honor of the downhill road, write a song about you.
How will Mordia and Hadar get to the stadium?
From Kabir road directly to the parking lot.
Or from Carmelia, to the sea and to Matam?
From the road, that's what everyone does.
And from the old Levant, the fastest to Tel Aviv?
From the road, everyone will answer.
For a memorial service in a cemetery? Kabir road.
Shopping in malls? Kabir road.
For a play in the theater? They went up the road a lot.
Did David enroll in the Technion? They went up a lot.
How good, how good, another road to turn around.
But remember, and we will remember again -
Will add a lot of traffic jams.
Oh, and how did we forget: Benue David in Pinoy Binui, the municipality plans to add about 3000 units in the coming years, with about 5000 vehicles.
Well, where do you think they will go to Carmel, to the Technion, to the university? Oh, how good it is to have a road in Kabir.
Warum warum.. a fresh street will turn into a rattle haha
So the original fruit I also have something to say to those who think like you:
If in Haifa you think they will reinvent the wheel with more downhill roads, you will find that the traffic jams simply moved into Neve David or at the exit from Kabvir. What today takes 5 minutes will take 20 minutes. If you don't believe, ask the residents of Derech Hayam and Ramat Eshkol who are "buried in traffic jams." No additional roads will help - unless you tell me that the downhill road is for emergencies only, and that normally only public transportation such as buses and taxis will pass through it in order to shorten its routes and make the neighborhoods prioritize it. Maybe maybe then I would say there is a benefit to another downhill road.
The biggest absurdity, that in a situation of fire on the back of the mountain the strongest winds blow. These roads will be dangerous for the public as an escape route and may lead to dozens of deaths that will be stuck in vehicles in smoke screens like in the bus disaster.
The road will serve as an excuse for the municipality to approve much denser construction in this neighborhood and in old Carmel. Plans for towers such as in the Nitzanim lot (15 stories) and the Shufersal/Oranim lot (12-15 stories) and the Mor-Labona traffic circle lot (15 stories) will now return to the committee's table based on transportation reviews that will say there is another access road and it is possible to approve hundreds of additional apartments.
What made you think that there is no hidden interest in pushing the road? Oh there is and there is.
As someone who has lived in Carmel for 75 years, I have something to say to all the whiners who shout against the roads and the destruction of nature. If you live in Carmel or Haifa, the whole city used to be fields and it was fun to walk through them. You yourselves have destroyed nature but that is the way of the world and it is a shame that the roads towards the coast were not paved first.
Well done, it's time.
Two years of work on 1 kilometer?!
In China it would be over within a month.
To Ms. Gertz,
Traffic jams by their nature never end, they just move from place to place. This will also be the case on the new road.
By the way, except for the residents of Kabbir, I assume that the road will be supplemented by vehicle traffic of the other residents of Carmel. The roads leading to Kabvir today are narrow and most likely will not be able to accommodate the expected increase in vehicles and then all expectations from the new road will go down the drain.
Two years on 1 kilometer of road....
No words…
Lying about an ecological road - a bad joke. You can even see from the simulation that there will be huge retaining walls of 10-15 meters along the entire length.
This is another layer in the elimination of Haifa as a green and quiet city.
As soon as 10 vehicles will pass through it, going down and going up through Kabeer, the bottleneck of the narrow Kadima Street and creating traffic jams going down to Neve David and 20 minutes ahead to the center of Carmel, the demonstrations against it will begin, I have no doubt at all.
It's absolutely devastating, just unfortunate decisions that bury the city in more unnecessary pathology.
For a long time there was no closed neighborhood, this road will turn it into a closed and congested neighborhood all hours of the day.
We need elections every year. This is the only way the municipality works and works for the city and its residents.
Will the load be reduced from the frequently congested Freud Road?