What I was really wonderind was if they would have a dedicated ROW, or share the road with autos. From the photos you showed it looks like they have their own separate ROW, at least in part.
Does this line and others have traffic light pre emption ?
Also note this from a posting some four years ago:
The existing line has traffic-light ore-emption in spots, but definitely not everywhere it should.
And even the traffic systems for buses at the intercfhange stations need lots of improvemen.
Still, on balance, it is a good system, and I enjoy every use I make of it. Which ranges from no use on one day to four or five times on another.
My general moral on living in Jerusalem jumped 100% on its year 2012 opening. Only the Unification of 1967 (I began visiting in 1960, moved in 1996.) made more of a difference.
With new management, this old symbol for Citipass:
Has been replaced by:
With the Hebrew word Kafir; translation is "young lion/"
One Dave Klepper, age 17+, wearing his ROTC uniform, Oct. or Nov. 1949 in front of MIT on Massachusetts Avenue, with a Type-4 enrout from Memorial Drive to Watertown, via Central Square, between. The Vassar Street on the roll-sign is there because the operator could not find a Mrmorial Drive sign and picked the sign for the closest point he could find, and then did not change it for the return trip to Watertown:
Dave Klepper, age 88+, 2020, playing HaTikvah on the Jerusalem City Hall concrete piano, with an Alstom Citidas 302 light-rail train as background, Jack May photo with unknown lady-in-red:
71 years separate the photographs, but 100 years the rail-cars, 1912-1913 and 2012-2013. NP-Eddie, note the head covering!
What does a concrete piano use for a sounding board?
It's really an electronic piano, with much the same technology as a synthesizer keyboard. A think the best answer to your question is "a good wide-range lousdspeaker."
I'm posting this photo again, because the chartered bus sogn on the negative was badly deteriorated, and in the coirrecton on the first posting, I misread the sign on another posted image, and need to post the correction. I will also replace the original posted image:
I owe Bradley Clarke's book Boston's MTA, Boston Street Railway Association, publishers for the correction.
Lines currently under costruction bor in detailed engineering all pass through or touch the main central business sdistrict. Now an exception has been authorized, the Puplee Line.
This map is not-to-scale, and some relative distances are very distorted:
Today, the first of August, was a big day for me and other senior citizens who use public transportation, effective today, free thoughout Israel for citizens over 65, and I'm 90. The same plastic card is used, and converted electronically for me at the Central Bus Station.
Dave:
Was that the cap I sent you several years ago? It looks nice on you.
Ed Burns
Free fares over 65 but not visitors?
Unsure about visitors but think not, since the various monthly passes are available only for citizens and registered forreign students. Corection: 75-and-over. 65 - 74 continue with half-fare. Half-fare also applies to registered students, including foreign students (who must also sign-up for sick-fund insurance and then receive treatment when required.) That being the case, I believe a visitor 75-and-over, who is a student at a University or Yeshiva, could get the free-transportation card. 65-74 half-fare, including an appropriate monthly pass.
News from yesterday,
The Jerusalem City Planning unit of the Municipality has started
their project to build a METRO in Jerusalem. The planning has begun.
Take a ride on our light rail line:
https://youtu.be/_gHQ_HzUDd4
The previous post really belongs on bthe Tel Aviv Metro thread. And we will use the direct connection at the Tel Aviv Arlozoroff Station, not requiring the bus between Israel Railways and the Red Light Rail Line.
But this post is prompted by a more serious matter. The Amunition Hill, Givat HaTachmoshet Station is the one closest to my Ma'alot Daphna Apartment, and I use it regularly, with a five-minute walk or two three-or-four-stop bus connections to my apartment, and two bus lines to the University. (Both the University and Ma'alot Daphne will have light-rail stations when current construction is completed. The following is from today's on-line Jerusalem Post:
An attempted stabbing attack was thwarted at a light rail station near Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem on Sunday evening, with the woman suspected of attempting to carry out the attack reportedly shot at the scene, according to initial reports.
Israel Police chief Kobi Shabtai arrived at the scene shortly after the incident.
The security guard who spotted the terrorist told Shabtai that he saw the woman going in and out of the light rail and asked her if she needed help. The woman then reached into her bag and pulled out a knife. The guard then jumped backward and shot twice in the air and ordered the woman to drop the knife. She refused to and the guard shot her in the leg, lightly injuring her.
The terrorist was identified by Palestinian media as Samira Harbawi. Her children were reportedly arrested shortly after the attack in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
Harbawi was reportedly arrested two months ago at the same light rail stop where she attempted the attack, but was judged to be unfit to stand trial by a court.
From Steve Sattler, trabnslated from Globus
I appreciate Gramp's wishes for my safety (Cox Birney thread), and believe a reply is appropriate,
I did check the English Language Israel Railways website. I'm sure services are curtailed, if only because of many reservists being called to active duty, Also Ashdot and Ashgkelon are fairly close to where fighting was taking place. But there was no evidence of this on the website. Probably because the one who posts the notices is also on active duty.
If any missiles were fired at Jerusalem, they must have been caught bythe Iron Dome early-on, because there have been no air-raid alarms.I did not know of this war and horrible Israeli casualty numbers whenI woke-up this morning. I knew something was up when most of theyoungsters were missing at services this morning. They are all at thefront or otherwise occupied in the war effort.Indeed, I had planned to go home after the close of Shabbat, combinedwith the one-day holiday in Israel, by a frequently used route: Arab255 or 275 bus from the back door to Damascus Gate, then Light Rail toAmuniti8on Hill, then Egged 34 or 52 bus to my apartment. I waited ahalf-hour, and no bus in either direction came. A Taxi stopped topick me up, but when I entered I saw there were two other passengers,an Arab woman and an Arab man. The driver was Arab but did speakHebrew when asking for my destination. I got quite a tour ofJerusalem's Mt. of Olives neighborhoods before heading in thedirection of my apartment. And I went to bed with a war the lastpossible thought on my mind.
I also checked the Hebrew and English Light Rail websites and found nothing related to the war effort.
I believe the service is regular, but with longer headways, because of fewer operators available.
Used the light rail twice today, and headways and operation were noirmal. But patronage about 1/3 normal for times of day.
The Arab buses appeared normal with normal patronage.
Egged seemed to provide half the service, with headways doubled. The Superbus line that overlaps Egged seemed be entirely out. Jerusalem local, no experience recently with intercity. On one mid-day Egged bus, I was the only passenger.
And as I starterd to post, I heard air-raid sirens for the first time, and then several booms. Local defenses must have brought down the missels. The particular Yeshiva building where I am tyoing is of stone with a wood-and-heavy-shingles roof. No specific shelter is nearby, and so I just continued posting when I heard the sirens,
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