(haipo) – After years of waiting, planning and discussions, Haifa marks a significant milestone in the fight against the phenomenon of “locked neighborhoods” on the Carmel Ridge. Over the weekend, the municipality opened the Ariel Sharon Highway to traffic, connecting the Vardia neighborhood to the Geula Slope, giving the neighborhood an additional entry and exit lane for the first time since its establishment.
Ariel Sharon Road connecting the Vardiya neighborhood to the Geula slopes◄ View
A transportation solution that removes a years-old barrier
The opening of the new road eliminates Vardiya's status as a neighborhood with only one exit. The road connects to Rabbi Kaniel Street, near the Geula Residence, and provides residents and drivers with an alternative route that is expected to significantly reduce congestion at the main exit towards Shimshon Street.
From now on, drivers wishing to reach Hadar, the lower city, the Carmel Tunnels or Neve Sha'anan will be able to do so via the new route, a move that will ease traffic at the busy intersection and shorten travel times.
Joint project: private entrepreneur and municipality
The road was paved by developer Shlomi Bitan as part of a development agreement signed with the municipality, as part of the construction of new projects in Wardia. In preparation for its opening, the municipality carried out landscaping, lighting, drainage, painting and signage work, which made the new route neat and ready for public use.
"Great news for Haifa residents"
The mayor, Yona Yahav, welcomed the opening of the road and noted its importance: "The opening of the Ariel Sharon Road is great news for the residents of Vardiya and the residents of Haifa as a whole. For years, people have talked about the phenomenon of the closed neighborhoods in Carmel, and we are working in practice to change this reality. Beyond facilitating transportation, the road has safety and emergency importance, especially in times of war or fires. This is the first step in a broader process, and we are determined to continue opening additional access routes in additional neighborhoods."
"A project of safety and transportation importance"
Municipality Director General, David Luria, emphasized the cooperation between the various parties: "The opening of the road is an important step in a long process of treating the closed neighborhoods. This is a project that gives the residents of Vardiya an additional access route and improves the ability to evacuate when necessary. We will continue to work to promote additional projects that will strengthen accessibility, safety and quality of life in the city."
Looking ahead: More neighborhoods on the road to liberation
The opening of Ariel Sharon Road marks the beginning of a broader move aimed at ensuring that every neighborhood in Carmel has alternative access routes. The municipality promises to continue promoting similar solutions in other neighborhoods, for the benefit of residents, their safety, and improving traffic in the city.
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> The residents of Vardiya can set up a checkpoint there like the residents of Danya in front of Tirat Carmel.
Residents of Dania are afraid that all traffic from Tirat Carmel will move from Dania to Carmel.
Residents of Vardiya will see all the traffic from Hadar and Geula going up through Vardiya to Carmel.
Set up a barrier, very simple. In an emergency, raise the barrier.
Danya is also a closed neighborhood, so why does the mayor refuse to open the road from it to Tirat Carmel? Racism?
Serious mistake!
This sealed Vardia's fate to begin a process of desegregation, which will start small (an apartment here, an apartment there) and become a tsunami in less than a decade. Did we mention the decline in the value of assets?
Now all that remains is to pave the section between the square and the Geula dormitory, where the road is full of cracks and potholes, and to install a normal traffic light at the bottom.
Today, turning left for those coming from the direction of the Grand is without a traffic light. A kind of conditional green.
I wonder why they didn't post the comment this morning, but I'll write it again and take a screenshot. I wonder if freedom of expression is being violated here???
I wrote that people bought an apartment for 3 million shekels hahahaha and Radya al-Hayem in the Ma'anot Geula neighborhood where there is a new 1 million shekel apartment
That's it. The Vardiya neighborhood has lost its virginity!
From now on, every stranger will pass through her and she will be defiled.
Congratulations on opening the road.
On the other hand, if traffic increases now because of this, it's a recipe for traffic jams and photos. The intersection at the entrance to the Geula dormitory is a problematic intersection for entry and exit, endangering lives, and the road in this area is bad.
Above, at the traffic circle – the marking is hidden, the circle is just drawn on the road and everyone driving there ignores it. A recipe for an accident.
There are not enough crosswalks on the new road.
In the section connecting to Vardiya, the road becomes narrow and there are car parks on both sides, turning the road from a two-lane road into a de facto one-lane road. Traffic jams and accidents are only a matter of time.
Haifa Municipality to invest in evacuation and construction in Kiryat Eliezer, there is a developer, an application was submitted and years have been waiting for approval of the houses without dimensions, danger to life, what are they waiting for? For people to kill? War has been going on for two years, looking for a place to make money? What about life insurance?
That's all well and good, but they left one section, near the Moudat Geula, in a terrible state. Why??
"And improves evacuation capacity when necessary," how ironic...
Good luck on the road!
But Ariel Sharon deserves less respect. Even the most crappy curbstone, on the dirtiest sidewalk, in the most dilapidated neighborhood, I wouldn't call his name.
I did not understand
The road has been open for two years. Why did she write now?
It only took 5 years and the road was perfect almost two years ago.
Well done, there is a free and wild area in this section.
Anna, make a playground for the new neighborhood.
This wild area is green space, but it is privately owned. The owners are constantly trying to turn it into a building, and the municipality, wisely, refuses.
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Congratulations - well done
Years late, without a bike lane
Right
And the section near Geula is a life-threatening hazard for cyclists. It's all potholes and cracks. Why did they leave a few hundred meters in such a state?