tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post334916151800168500..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: Incoming TrainYaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-80195911742499177262011-04-15T05:26:33.246+03:002011-04-15T05:26:33.246+03:00I think that one of Israel's greatest transpor...I think that one of Israel's greatest transportation policy failures is relying on busses rather than trains as the main form of public transportation, especially since they inherited a relatively good rail network from the Mandate. Israel proper is only the size of NJ. Israel with the WB/Gaza/Golan is only a little over ten thousand square miles. Either way, its a very dense place. Rail makes sense as a transportation option under these circumstances.<br /><br /> Plus, I think that a good rail net would serve to consolidate Israeli control over its territory because of the permanency of rail.Lee Ratnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08139895689217213860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-83780304168778992812011-04-14T20:06:01.175+03:002011-04-14T20:06:01.175+03:00Half an hour from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. That will...Half an hour from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. That will be fantastic.<br /><br />Will the existing (and historic) scenic, but slow, line go out of service?<br /><br />I miss postcards...MSShttp://fruitsandvotes.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-27858354222431406592011-04-13T21:25:08.985+03:002011-04-13T21:25:08.985+03:00Um, maybe in Israel, it's more reassuring that...Um, maybe in Israel, it's more reassuring that the trains don't run on time.<br /><br />That is, that they run on Israeli time.<br /><br />File under: "Inconvenient maybe, but worth it"(?)Barry Meislinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04795125774426217113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-12376845184896305462011-04-13T21:14:42.007+03:002011-04-13T21:14:42.007+03:00Way back in the 1980's I took the most beautif...Way back in the 1980's I took the most beautiful train ride from Emek Refaim (Jerusalem) to Tel Aviv.<br /><br />It took about 2 hours.<br /><br />NycerbarbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-74105176112319892792011-04-13T20:29:30.945+03:002011-04-13T20:29:30.945+03:00I was born quite a while after 1980, and I most ce...I was born quite a while after 1980, and I most certainly know what a postcard is.<br /><br />Of course, my family also had a rotary phone, a television made in the 1960s, and a copy of our oven was in the Smithsonian as a "historic artifact," so perhaps I'm not the best example.<br /><br />How far along is this new train line project? Are they already laying down tracks or is he still wrestling with bureaucracy to get it off the ground?Bryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09099017972456573744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-17394190153466242962011-04-13T19:44:32.854+03:002011-04-13T19:44:32.854+03:00it might have been one of these http://www.nouvell...it might have been one of these http://www.nouvellesimages.com/Postcards_Paris_Black---White-photo_rg~1<br /><br />as to trains being on time - it is said that they once were, come rain or come shine, though my memory doesn't agree (der Zug auf Gleis 5 hat 8 Minuten Verspätung would have been a nice one) but these days complaints about delays are always good for another lament in the MSM.Silkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16383345395827271854noreply@blogger.com