(haipo) The development of the metro network in the Haifa metropolitan area is taking a step forward. The trans-Israel company announced that Danya Cebus has won the tender to implement a grade separation at the Matam intersection, a key step in the construction of the new metro line that will connect Tirat Carmel and the neighborhoods of West Haifa to the transportation, employment and leisure centers of the area. The cost of the work is estimated at approximately 170 million shekels.
Since its opening in 2013, the metro has become a success story, with about 100 trips per day and about 30 million per year. It operates on designated lanes, enjoys priority at traffic lights and provides a clear alternative to the private car. The system is now expanding with two new extensions with a total length of about 10 km and 30 smart stations.
The new extensions will connect Tirat Carmel and the West Haifa neighborhoods of Neot Peres, Sami Ofer, Mevot Hadaroumiem, Ma'ale Carmel Medical Center, and more to the central employment and commercial areas of Haifa Bay and Mount Carmel. With their operation, the entire metro network is expected to grow by an additional 5 to 7 million passengers per year.
Level crossing that will change the traffic entering Haifa
The work at the Matam Intersection, as announced last July in Haifa, includes the construction of a new dedicated metro lane, six advanced platforms, bicycle and pedestrian paths, new infrastructure and landscape development, alongside a grade separation that will allow continuous and fast metro traffic, regardless of traffic congestion at the entrance to Haifa. The goal of the project is to enable high flow for both the public transportation system and private vehicles in an area that is currently considered one of the busiest in the metropolis.
A wide chain of projects throughout the Northeast
Alongside the Tirat Carmel-Haifa West line, the Ministry of Transportation is promoting a significant expansion of the entire metro network in the metropolis. Among the key projects is the extension of the metro line to Acre, an investment of approximately 300 million shekels (expected to open in the coming year).
"Kiryat Ata Circle" is a new line 8.5 km long and costing approximately 650 million shekels, scheduled to open in 2028.
Both lines include extensive upgrades to urban infrastructure, smart stations, priority lanes and bike paths, which will strengthen connectivity between Haifa, the Krayot, Acre and Tirat Carmel.
Minister of Transportation Miri Regev: "We are leading a transportation revolution in the Haifa metropolis. The new metro project will provide residents with an advanced, green and fast transportation system that will create a real alternative to the private car and strengthen accessibility to all centers of life in the north. Together with the new lines to Acre and Kiryat Ata and with the light rail to Nof HaGalil and Nazareth, we are re-networking the north."
Promoting the system – also at the national level
Director General of the Ministry of Transportation, Moshe Ben Zaken, He noted that expanding the network is part of a national plan to establish an advanced mass transit system in metropolitan areas in Israel: "Upgrading the infrastructure will enable frequent, fast and reliable service, which will reduce traffic jams and shorten travel times. We will continue to develop the metro and improve public transportation services throughout the country."
CEO of Chutz Israel, Dan Shanbach: "The project will significantly ease traffic congestion at the entrance to the Haifa metropolis and improve connectivity and quality of life. We will continue to lead advanced projects for the residents of the north."
The matron from Kiryat to Haifa
Great thing. They set 4 time limits.
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Well done for thinking ahead.
Such public transportation is the solution to traffic jams.
The matron of Kiryat Matam is a living example of this.
The problem is that the execution in the field is weak. See the work connecting Mitzumkin to Acre. It is slowly creeping along. At least another year of work.
What will we do with all this transportation that we don't have money for?
The traffic engineering in Haifa is and will likely be the worst in the country! Everything that is built and planned there is bad in every way! At every point in the city where traffic engineering has intervened, the area has been destroyed and this is a cry for generations! Who is the 0 who is at the head of this system? He only destroys!
We all know the concept, significant and rapid improvements begin to move and happen, especially when there is an atmosphere and/or scent of elections in the air (local authorities/government). The problem is that it always works, because most people don't learn, they decide based on short-term plans) and then they cry that nothing changes - how can anything change if they do the same things all the time?!
This bridge is terrible.
Will destroy the walkability and create a visual barrier for those in the stadium facing the sea
Who thought of this shocking thing???
Why doesn't the city council object?
The bridge over the Matam intersection is the opposite of everything smart gates do.
Tel Aviv bombed the Maariv Bridge to get an urban environment and not main roads in the heart of the city
What is Haifa doing? The opposite. Building bridges that will destroy the urban environment and further isolate it.
Someone here simply decided to destroy the value of Haifa.
You can see that whoever thought of this route doesn't live in the area. What is the use of this route?
If you are already investing and building, connect the Metro and West Haifa to the Hof Carmel station!!
According to which transportation minister do we have, making a revolution in transportation, it only subsides to point out that there are elections, perhaps soon, and to promise and to remove them, it doesn't cost money.
The State Comptroller was not enthusiastic about the matron, to say the least.
Colossal failure and a billion shekels disappeared in the first lines, still "checking" today
The metro didn't work. They forced us to use it by canceling bus lines that preceded it.