Tel Aviv Metro Construction: Traffic, Stations and Demolitions

We have no other choice. We'll see fences going up, and we'll start to feel the movement of dozens, if not hundreds, of trucks arriving with concrete, and leaving with sand.

And what I hear is unbearable traffic jams, that what we're experiencing now in Tel Aviv is just a preview.

If we'd built the metro on time and before starting light rail construction, then, for example, in Tel Aviv, we'd have encountered twenty excavation pits and twenty excavation pits would probably have been less bad than closing all those—bringing all of Ben Yehuda into the traffic and the light rail construction isn't finishing on time

and so the start of metro construction will come on top of the fact that only one light rail line is currently operating in Gush Dan, so, in fact, Tel Aviv residents entering the city and all the residents of the metropolitan area will certainly suffer from the metro construction to create a better future for generations to come.

In Tel Aviv alone, about twenty metro stations are expected to be built.

And the sites where they'll be built will become, at least for the next decade, major construction sites. and noisy, including major and especially busy hubs like Hashalom Junction, Habima Square, Hashmonaim, Begin, the Carmelit, and Magen David Square.

We have 109 metro stations set to be built across the metropolitan area, uh, and that means Holon and Rishon LeZion too, and Bat Yam, Ness Ziona, and…

everyone will feel it, including Ramla and Lod as part of this, and the Sharon region's cities.

But in Tel Aviv, 19, 20 very central stations.

All roads lead to Rome, which is Tel Aviv, and Tel Aviv will bear the brunt of the effort to accommodate these works within the city.

In fact, compared with the light rail, the metro work ahead of us is a completely different world.

It will be focused at sites with enormous pits, but some of the locations are strategic, in a way that is set to disrupt people's lives — whether they're residents or business owners or visitors or people passing through the city.

An example of the latter is the Hashalom–Yigal Alon Junction, where a station is set to be built at the junction, and only one lane down to the Ayalon will remain.

Everyone who drives through, everyone who works in this area, everyone who walks down this street will curse.

How many years are these works expected to take?

They're talking about fifteen, twenty years.

And, of course, their quality of life will suffer.

Anyone who owns property here will suffer a lot, but in the end, the value of the property here will rise.

Anyone renting an expensive apartment here will have to lower the rent, just as rents are lowered in every building next to a TAMA project.

But the ones who really suffer are business owners, especially business owners with protected tenancy who can't leave.

But what this means for these buildings is that it's not just the row, this whole row.

This whole row is disappearing. Yes. They're going down. They're going to be demolished.

Everything you see here. Preparing compensation by mail.

No, no, they're not going to talk to them one by one. They've started talking.

There will be buildings that are going to be completely demolished. For the metro.

There will be about four hundred fifty units.

Four hundred fifty housing units. Residential or commercial. Okay. That will have to be demolished.

There's an expropriation team working with, Works with those same residents and tenants on obtaining compensation for expropriations, on getting, uh, those who ultimately reach an amicable settlement, and also getting an addition to the market price,

and in the end, we'll see renewal here.