As much as 160 km/h: the plan that may join Kiryat Shmona to the middle of the nation

The North District Planning and Building Committee authorized the plan for the development of the railway between Karmiel and Kiryat Shmona. The primary purpose of the challenge is to attach the northern settlements by prepare to the nationwide metropolises, from Kiryat Shmona, by Karmiel, to the Haifa metropolis and thru it a direct and steady connection to all elements of the nation.

The plan features a double monitor with a size of regarding 54 km, from the Karmiel station to Kiryat Shmona, of which greater than 20 km are in tunnels. The prepare is deliberate to journey at a velocity of regarding 160 km/h, and the price of constructing the challenge is estimated at regarding NIS 12 billion.

This can be a complicated and distinctive challenge, which incorporates difficult engineering techniques, tunnels, difficult bridging, and different engineering parts – such because the diversion of Freeway 85 and interchanges, grade separations and the reducing of Freeway 90 south of Sde Eliezer and Agmon Hula, and extra. All of those represent a design and efficiency problem, which is able to in the end allow this vital transportation infrastructure. On the identical time, the challenge is deliberate to combine into the panorama and protect the agricultural and pure character of the realm.

The plan stipulates an improve of the Karmiel West prepare station, andRisk of creating 5 extra passenger stations between the present station in Karmiel West and Kiryat Shmona:

* Kiryat Shemona station, a terminus that may serve the residents of Kiryat Shemona and surrounding communities, and the commercial and employment areas within the space, Tel Hai School and the College of the Galilee, the analysis and improvement institutes in addition to the vacationer websites in Hermon, the Golan Heights and the Finger of the Galilee.

* The Hazor HaGalilit station (Zachar) is meant to be a central passenger station adjoining to a regional transportation middle, which is able to serve the residents of Safed, Hazor HaGalilit, Rosh Pina, the middle of the Golan Heights and Katsrin, the commercial areas, authorities establishments and the medical middle in Safed, in addition to the vacationer websites As well as, the plan permits for the institution of an exit station for the cable automobile to Safed.

* The Karmiel – Nahaf Mizrah station (the Karmiel regional industrial space), which is able to serve the residents of Karmiel, Nahaf, the east of Beit HaKerem valley, and the encircling communities, and naturally will assist the enterprise and financial exercise of the central industrial and industrial space of ​​the area.

* Risk of a future station – Agmon Hula station/Junction 28, is marked within the plan as a logo (a search space and never an in depth plan), which is able to permit sooner or later, following the development of the authorized stations within the plan, to determine a passenger station primarily for tourism and recreation functions and connection to the excessive mountain settlements.

* Risk of a future station – the Marom HaGalil station, marked within the plan as a logo (a search space and never an in depth plan), to serve passengers to the Rashbi’s Tomb and surrounding communities.

Along with the passenger stations, the rail planning will permit for the long run improvement of cargo terminals, which will probably be promoted as a part of complementary plans, in order that will probably be doable to make use of the rail community to move cargo from the Kiryat Shmona space, the Zachar industrial space, Dalton, the Golan Heights, the Sakhenin Valley, and the Beit HaKerem Valley , to the ocean and air ports.

Chairman of the District Planning and Building Committee for the North, Boaz Yosef: “The approval of the plan is one other step in direction of realizing the imaginative and prescient of the District Committee to strengthen the North, each economically and socially. The prepare to Kiryat Shmona will allow the connection of the far north to the middle and south of the nation. The railway line will instantly assist Karmiel, Nahaf, Rosh Pina, Hazor HaGalilit and Kiryat Shmona. We count on to see extra plans to attach all of the northern settlements to the rail community, together with Tiberias, the Decrease Galilee, the Jordan Valley and the Golan Heights.”

The Northern District Planner within the Planning Administration, Dekla Adi-Peretz: “This is a crucial and really complicated plan that, as a part of its improvement, the district committee examined many facets with the intention to stability numerous issues, together with the engineering, bodily, city, environmental, scenic facets, in addition to sustaining property rights on the one hand The wants of most of the people. Together with the numerous engineering improvement, the committee noticed nice significance in preserving the present character of those areas, together with the Hula Valley, and integrating the monitor and the prepare stations into the present and deliberate city improvement.”