Spanish-Israeli association wins J’lem light rail tender; Chinese organisation unsuccessful
Spanish-Israeli owned association TransJerusalem J-Net Ltd. was comparison by an interministerial cabinet on Wednesday to erect a designed prolongation of a Jerusalem Light Rail and take over operations of a flourishing network.
Owned by Shapir Engineering and Spanish rail organisation CAF, TransJerusalem J-Net was determined for a purpose of competing for a Jerusalem JNET tender.
A second consortium behest for a tender – Shikun Binui and Egged, together with a Chinese association CRRC, Spanish organisation COMSA, Portuguese house EFACEC and Polish use provider MPK – was unsuccessful.
The tender, for that bids were submitted by a May deadline, includes holding over a operation and upkeep of a existing Red Line, as good as a prolongation of a northern shred of a line to Neveh Ya’acov and a southern shred to Hadassah-University Medical Center in Ein Kerem.
The association will reinstate a CityPass Group, that built and has operated a light rail given construction began in 2002.
The association will also be obliged for a construction of a Green Line, that will run from Mount Scopus to Gilo and Malha, with branches to Hebrew University’s Givat Ram campus and Givat Shaul. The new line is approaching to ride 160,000 passengers around a city on a daily basis.
The plan includes a construction of 27 km. of rail, 50 stations, a pattern and make of over 100 carriages and poignant network control infrastructure. Operation of a stretched network, set to widen over 40 km. of a city once complete, is due to embark gradually in 2022 and be entirely operational by 2025.
“Selecting a leader of a JNET plan is a pivotal miracle in compelling Jerusalem’s travel infrastructure,” pronounced Accountant-General Rony Hizkiyahu.
“This plan is a poignant partial of a 2030 Plan, in that infrastructure projects are approaching to be implemented in a accumulation of areas such as energy, desalination, rubbish and, of course, other travel projects, such as a light rail in Tel Aviv and a metro plan in Gush Dan,” Hizkiyahu said.
“Completing a proposal routine in such a brief time support demonstrates that supervision ministries are operative diligently to allege a customary of infrastructure in Israel to a customary of grown countries as shortly as possible.”
The project, a public-private partnership, will be a largest of a kind in Israel to date. TransJerusalem J-Net will work a network for an initial duration of 15 years, with an choice for an additional 10 years, and will be obliged for a upkeep of a network for 25 years.
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