(haipo) Today (Tuesday 5/5/26) the approach City Council Member Sally Abed The majority faction of the city asked Mayor Yona Yahav about the status of the "Matronit on the Carmel Ridge" program. This is a program that was approved and budgeted for years ago but has not yet been implemented. Yahav's response indicates that the municipality is dragging its feet in promoting the project, and the faction has begun distributing a residents' petition to put pressure on the municipality.
A query reveals delays in project advancement
The query submitted to the City Council refers to the strategic plan for the development of public transportation published in 2015, which mentions the metro project on the Carmel Ridge route as a project to be implemented in the short term, until 2025.
According to the plan, the project, known as the "Purple Line," is supposed to pass through Hanasi, Moriah, Horev, and Abba Hushi streets, and is important for closing a transportation circle: Center of the Bay - Technion - University - Carmel Ridge - Center of the Carmel - Hadar - Lower City - Center of the Bay.
A transportation master plan in Haifa written in 2023-2025 also referred to the Carmel Metro Project as part of the chosen alternative for transportation development in the city, known as the "Axial Alternative."
The query noted that on December 8, 2025, it was published that Mayor Yona Yahav had asked the Transportation Minister to advance the project, which had not been advanced until now due to the municipality's opposition during the previous term. Abed asked to know, among other things, what was decided at that meeting, whether there are timetables for advancing the plan, whether the route includes an underground section, and what supplementary steps are being taken to allow residents to reach the metro route from within the neighborhoods.
City Majority Faction: The municipality is not making transportation a top priority
Councilwoman Sally Abed The majority faction of the city said: "The mayor's response shows what we already knew, the Haifa Municipality does not prioritize the development of public transportation despite the serious transportation problems in Haifa. The Carmel Ridge, including the Moriah axis, suffers greatly from traffic jams and lack of connectivity, and an acute change in the situation there is required, a change that the mayor could bring about." Abed added that the majority faction of the city would be happy to be at the disposal of the municipality for the benefit of the project.
Omer Cohen, Transportation Team Coordinator In the majority faction of the city, he said: "We demand that the Haifa Municipality and its leaders apply pressure on the Ministry of Transportation and the minister and ensure that the metro project is budgeted for in the current budget year and implemented in the next two years. Carmel has no time to wait any longer."
Residents' petition to put pressure on the municipality
In parallel with the submission of the query, the majority faction of the city recently began distributing a residents' petition aimed at pressuring the municipality to promote the "Matronit on the Carmel Ridge" project. From Mayor Yahav's response to the query, it can be understood, according to the faction, that the resources required to promote the project are not being invested. Despite this, the majority faction of the city expresses optimism and claims that if the mayor chooses to take action to promote the project, this could happen. The faction calls on Haifa residents to join the petition and help promote the issue.
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The Matronit plan on the ridge axis was presented at the end of Amram Mitzna's term. At the initiative of the "Ramel Public Forum" association. The plan, prepared by a team of experts from the Technion, was already presented to the public at that time. During Yahav's first terms, the plan was constantly on the table, waiting to be implemented, and was even allocated a huge budget of over 1.5 billion shekels by the government. After Klish was elected instead of Yahav, this was the first project she unfortunately canceled (she later regretted her decision). Zet was a cry for generations, and not the only one during her time.
Now the municipality is trying to restore the metro plan and obtain funding for it from the Ministry of Transportation, although the list of budgets that the municipality is requesting from the ministry includes other important projects and here it is necessary to prioritize according to schedules.
A matron on this axis is a bad idea.
Why not simply initiate a bus line that will start at President Boulevard and reach the university?
Completely unnecessary
There is excellent public transportation.
And you don't need a long car on the highway.
There are plenty of buses anyway.
Completely unnecessary, I already said.
Not that I'm against matrons...
But on the Carmel highways, there is barely room for vehicles in 2 lanes. Adding 2 more metro lanes is simply impossible.
You're right!!@ It's absurd that the Carmel and the University Road are suffering from inadequate and ineffective congestion!! Instead of unnecessary cable cars and moving walkways, they should invest in transportation!!!
Don't ruin the green Carmel with another route, there are plenty of buses here: - most of which are barely half full, look for something greener to launder public money for contractor workers!
Only the metro connects the Carmel Center to the university.
Everything else is delusional.
An entertainment complex should be built as a station beneath the Carmel Center, and the metro and the Carmelit should be connected to it.
It is unbelievable that in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem there are underground transportation solutions such as tunnels and tunnels, and in Haifa the only thing that has changed in the last 40 years is the date, the destruction of the stores in Hadar and the strengthening of the Grand Canyon.
The project should start in six months with a Chinese company and be given a year to complete, as they did with the Olympics in China.
A faction pretending to be the city's rabbi wants to deny private vehicles access on the entire route from the President to Moria and Horev Abba Khushi - a disaster for the city's rabbi.
A mayor who is unwilling and unable to make tough, courageous decisions. He blames the creation of the project on the previous mayor. But the truth is that he is the one who stopped the project at the end of his previous term. He does not have the courage to promote any transportation project, neither bike paths nor public transportation, because he is afraid of the cries of the residents. The Ministry of Transportation understands his incompetence and therefore does not promote projects in the city.
Let's build this megalomaniacal project next to the homes of the deranged [to put it mildly] who want to make life miserable for the residents of the Carmel Range there.
The metrophone will take up one lane along the entire length of the highway.
As I wanted it to be received in escalators, so I believe that in the future the High Speed Rail will be received.
Near your home, so that your entire life will pass with closed shutters that will prevent consumers of those means from peeking inside.
The roads mentioned have only two lanes, and if they close one lane in favor of the metro that will arrive every 10-15 minutes, endless traffic jams will be created, because these roads direct transportation to neighborhoods and directions that people travel to. No one will give up their car if they need to get to the Carmelia neighborhood, or from Carmel to Neve Sha'anan. This is more of a lack of understanding than an actual possibility.
Or in return for bribes paid by future operators of the perverted company.
How can a Haifa resident think this is a good idea? For years, the Hanasi-Moriya-Horev-Abba Khushi highway has been called the "Evil Highway." Traveling during rush hour on the highway is a nightmare not created by the devil. Removing one lane from two will clog up the city. Each trip will take an hour and a half. Where do you live for God's sake?
my son
I strongly oppose the existence of the Matron on Mount Carmel.
A) This will create traffic congestion for cars coming from all the neighborhoods that converge on the Carmel Ridge axis, both during the work period and afterwards.
b) All residents in the Carmel neighborhoods will not be able to benefit from the matron's services effectively.
So they will spend long hours getting to and from the matron's house.
Unlike Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and many cities that have a grid with streets parallel to the main street that can create an alternative to closing the main street to vehicles or turning it into a one-way street in each direction, as was done with the metro on Herzl and Halutz streets in Hadar on the Carmel Ridge, the ridge axis is an exclusive axis and any closure of it requires unbearable detours.
The metro will require the closure of the ridge axis in both directions for many years to be built and also the demolition of one lane in each direction, which will leave the ridge axis like a neighborhood street with only one lane in each direction. Any vehicle with a malfunction will cause huge traffic jams throughout the ridge. The metro is impractical, inefficient (very slow compared to any Carmelit alternative, as Tel Aviv discovered on the Red Line and will discover even more so on the Green Line, which has only 4 underground stations).
On the route from the Chernichovsky Ridge through President Moriah Horev and Abba Khushi Boulevards, it is not possible to push metro lines.
Repeat: Not possible.
Let's say it again: not possible.
All that Shifa Nof is doing, called "planning the route," is a bluff that will cause traffic jams of dozens of kilometers every day if they remove a lane. And Tama 38 already causes huge traffic jams during rush hour throughout the entire length of the ridge.
A metro takes two lanes from a two-lane highway on a ridge. 2 out of 4. Leaving only one lane in each direction.
Not possible.
Repeat: Not possible.
Mrs. Sally Kedmi Real public transportation: Autonomous taxis that will take the public to the ridge axis in the neighborhoods so that the public will not have to own a second and third vehicle (the technology already works and exists worldwide). Creating a circular NTA within the neighborhoods where autonomous vehicles will drive that will quickly take the public to buses on the ridge axis and return to pick up additional passengers. On the ridge axis during rush hours where it is possible to mark a bus lane with a can of paint instead of parking spaces – for example on the Freud axis, at the Horev intersection, at the PICA on the way to Horev to allow the buses to be punctual and reduce time.
I am in favor, provided that it operates all days of the week, including Saturdays and holidays, and also departs from Bat Galim, goes up to Carmel, and continues along the watershed line to Osfiya and then to the last stop in Dalit El Carmel.
Lack of proper disclosure:
How far is your home from the proposed route for the metro.
We need to produce a flying car! We need to open a factory to produce a flying car in Haifa
I am in favor of cable cars in all directions.
About 12 will be enough by 2032.
After that we will see…
your.
Mirirkv.
The article presents "flying" people with a disconnect from reality and/or a pursuit of headlines.
In whose name is the faction demanding a matron?
The Carmel Center-Moriah-Ahuza route does not require a metro because there is no demand for it at all and it involves a lot of destruction and pollution.
There is indeed a demand for the construction of additional roads from the neighborhoods on the ridge, for example, connecting Danya to Tirat Carmel, connecting Harofeh Street to the coastal road, etc., this is a necessity of reality.
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