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Yes, it's walkable for your daily needs, and people normally do a lot of errands by walking as well. But not to work. Also, the lack of bus service during Shab
by lozenge 5y ago
Yes, it's walkable for your daily needs, and people normally do a lot of errands by walking as well. But not to work.
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.
- novok 5y agoWhy 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.
- names_are_hard 5y agoThey'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.
- rsj_hn 5y agoI 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.
- novok 5y agoAh there is a metro plan! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv_Metro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv_Metro