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Re: PHOTOS: Israel Railways |
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Posted by subfan on Tue Jan 30 17:37:32 2007, in response to Re: PHOTOS: Israel Railways, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Tue Jan 30 17:29:47 2007. If you're riding on Friday, it only requirers one train change, and it's on the same platform. I did it myself a couple of weeks ago (at 7:14 on a Friday morning), and there were at least 10 additional people who did the same thing.As far as where the HSR is supposed to go - it is scheduled to go to a new underground station near Binyanei Ha'umma (Jerusalem Convention Center), right accross from the bus station. The old station in the center of town, on David Remez St., was closed since it was in middle of a residential area, and the powers that be didn't want the high traffic an active rail station would bring - never mind that the station had been there for close to a century previously. The station is still there, but is falling apart. Another point - at this time, the station is only connected to the original tracks, coming in from the south; the new HSR would be coming in from the north, and would be quite difficult to connect to the original station. |
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