Re:Tel Aviv is the world’s most expensive city
by novok on Saturday December 04, 2021 @05:13PM
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Why hasn't tel-aviv made a metro yet? It's not the USA, there are many people from europe who have had a good experience with metros in their home countries, it's not poor and it's not Houston sized sprawling either.
Re:Tel Aviv is the world’s most expensive city
by names_are_hard on Sunday December 05, 2021 @12:11AM
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They're working on it. Excavation is indeed a pain, there's a lot of extra traffic recently due to the construction, and people complain about the noise too. But it's happening.
I don't expect it to help much with the Shabbat issue, but politics are hard to predict so we'll see.
Re:Tel Aviv is the world’s most expensive city
by rsj_hn on Saturday December 04, 2021 @05:15PM
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I would imagine that excavation in Tel Aviv would be a huge pain, and previously there were a lot of security concerns with bunching people up in a metro. Perhaps now things have quieted down but the land has gotten very expensive.
Re:Tel Aviv is the world’s most expensive city
by novok on Saturday December 04, 2021 @05:17PM
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Ah there is a metro plan! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv_Metro
Also, the lack of bus service during Shabbat means everybody needs a car just to go see their family every Friday, which then means you're a car owner and more tempted to create traffic the rest of the week. Since 2019, Tel Aviv mayor used a loophole in the Shabbat law - by offering busses for free they are able to run during Shabbat, but the area covered is small.