Growing pains

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Welcome to Jaffa Road, the main artery in the heart of Jerusalem.
But for months now this artery has been clogged.

You see the train in the mural on the building? This is how the tram, the Light Rail will look, IF the track-laying is ever finished.

Let us survey the situation.

To the anger of the merchants whose stores line the street, the sidewalks have been fenced in and potential customers are hard-pressed to navigate the narrow space.

Public transportation is reduced to one lane, in one direction only.

If something like this heavy dump truck has to come up and merge into traffic, your commute across town can last a LONG time.

Part of the Jaffa Road traffic is diverted to the parallel Prophets Street, itself just a narrow 2-lane street with even narrower sidewalks.

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If you saw my Thursday post, you may remember that the new mayor has threatened/promised to review the feasibility of the Light Rail project with its new Bridge of Strings and to replace them with cheaper, more effective alternatives IF he can find any.
Oh give me a break!! He wouldn't stop all this in the middle, would he?

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Grrrr--the big bad bulldozer digging at the entrance to our moshav cut our telephone cable yesterday morning. A whole day and a half with no Internet, cut off from civilization and my beloved new-found blogosphere. Oi! Having no TV, I must watch Internet broadcasts of the nightly news, so now I'm 1 1/2 days behind the times. And, as one of the last Israelis without a cellphone, I was also without phoning capability until just now. Man, you might just as well try to talk on a banana.