(Haipo) – The Haifa Municipality will begin road scrubbing and grading work in the Ramat Hen neighborhood on Sunday, October 4, as part of a comprehensive effort to rehabilitate and upgrade road infrastructure throughout the city. The work is expected to continue until October 20 and will cause traffic disruptions on the streets of the neighborhood.
Extensive work on the streets of Ramat Hen – complete traffic blockages
The work will be carried out between October 4 and October 4.10, Sunday through Thursday, between 8:30 AM and 20.10:00 PM, and will include Bat Chen, Tzofit, Hochit, Duchipat, and Peshush streets. In the first phase, Sunday through Thursday, October 08–17, the work will be carried out on Tzofit, Hochit, Duchipat, and Peshush streets, depending on progress on the ground. During the work on these streets, the road will be completely blocked to vehicle traffic, with the exception of security vehicles. After this phase is completed, the work will continue on Bat Chen Street. A representative from the Public Inquiries Division will accompany the work on the ground, who will provide residents with answers to any questions or issues that may arise.
Part of a municipal plan with an investment of approximately 70 million shekels
The work in Ramat Hen is part of the "Roads Revolution" led by the Haifa Municipality - a large-scale program to rehabilitate and upgrade roads throughout the city, with an investment of approximately 70 million shekels. As part of the program, dozens of streets and road sections in the city's neighborhoods have been renovated and are being renovated, with the aim of improving the safety of road users, the comfort of travel and the quality of urban infrastructure. Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav said that "the roads revolution is reaching another neighborhood and another street. After years in which significant gaps have accumulated in the city's infrastructure, we are investing large resources to close them. Ramat Hen joins a long line of neighborhoods in which we have already worked, and we will continue to reach all parts of Haifa."
The municipality calls on residents to prepare for changes in traffic arrangements
Haifa Municipality CEO David Luria noted that "the work in Ramat Hen is part of a regular, multi-year municipal work plan to rehabilitate the road infrastructure. We are progressing street by street and neighborhood by neighborhood, according to professional priorities and with close supervision of the implementation. This is a significant move that will continue and expand to additional locations throughout Haifa." Haifa Municipality asks drivers and residents to obey the instructions and controls in the area, use alternative routes and prepare for temporary changes in traffic arrangements in the area. The municipality apologizes for the temporary inconvenience and thanks residents for their patience and cooperation.
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Perhaps it would be helpful for the respected reporter to ask tough questions instead of being a mouthpiece for the city's spokeswoman.
For example, what are the so-called professional priorities? In all likelihood, the priorities are a derivative of the activists who recruited votes and nothing more. There are objective engineering indicators today. Have they been done in Haifa? Is there a multi-year plan? Why aren't they presented to the public?
Ramat Hen is a relatively new neighborhood.
If the roads there are already required to be repaved, it is clear that the first paving was done poorly. Supervision was most likely by Haifa municipality employees.
Why doesn't the municipality investigate how these employees approved such poor work by the construction contractors? Why not deduct the cost of the repair from their salary or pension?
It's not just the roads in Haifa that are 90 percent broken, even in new neighborhoods it's already starting to crumble.
There is no street lighting, dark crosswalks, traffic lights that are not adjusted to the number of vehicles, road markings, and the list goes on and on.
Thank you for repairing and arranging the roads in Haifa according to neighborhoods. What I want to ask Haifa and non-Haifa drivers is not to travel in the Carmel Tunnels anymore because once again the fare has changed to 12 shekels per section, which is not normal. I also say not to travel until it is free. I was in Jerusalem. All the tunnels there are free, only the ones in the north. Also, all the businesses that give employees a refund or free travel. Close the option. If they don't understand with their heads, they will understand with their feet. We have once again unilaterally closed travel in the Carmel Tunnels. Enough.
We in Kiryat Haim Mizrahi pay municipal taxes on neglected roads, neglected lighting, sidewalks on the inside, the first patrolman talks about the streets, the Hebrew battalion, we are the periphery, but Danya's taxes are a shame for the municipality's conduct.
Not exactly a road revolution. There are a lot of broken roads within the city limits, crosswalks with no line of sight for drivers and pedestrians, faded traffic signs, traffic light plans that are not appropriate for the number of vehicles in the city, and so on and so forth. Scrubbing and resurfacing the road is nice, but it's not enough.
The entire issue of transportation infrastructure and road safety must be upgraded, and preferably one hour in advance.