Despite the budget cuts, the government has finally given approval to the upgrade and renovations of Highway 38!
Changing the 38 to a two-lane-in-each-direction highway will cost 900 million shekels, and will take a considerable amount of time. Traffic will get much worse before it gets any better, but this is very necessary, and long overdue, for the current city let alone for the expected growth in the coming years!
All those traffic jams you sit in leaving the city to go to work in the morning and returning home in the evening? Not a thing of the past just yet, but hopefully within the foreseeable future..
(source: INN)
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What great news!
ReplyDeleteCertainly Mayor Abutbal had much to do with pushing this through and moving Beit Shemesh forward. Thanks to him.
Baruch Hashem .... finally!!!
ReplyDeleteDown the pike vs. down the pipe
ReplyDeleteThe idiom meaning soon to happen or appear was originally coming down the pike, not coming down the pipe, but both forms are now widely used and understood.
In coming down the pike, the noun pike is short for turnpike, which is a broad road, sometimes a toll road. This usage of pike originated in the U.S. in the early 19th century, and the earliest known instances of coming down the pike appeared around 1900. Pike soon fell out of use and has survived almost exclusively in this idiom, so it’s understandable that so many English speakers resist using it. Meanwhile, pipe is of course a very familiar word, and things do come down pipes sometimes, so it’s easy to see why pipe has taken pike‘s place in the idiom, even if the pipe metaphor doesn’t hold up under logical scrutiny.
About time. The flip side is that home values will rise and R/BS will be less affordable.
ReplyDeleteI just hope that this time it is really for real!
ReplyDeleteIsn't this about the third or fourth time that it has been approved "absolutely"?
The truth is that approval for expansion of Road 38 is a political hostage. It is an absolute disgrace that only now it is being approved. When the planning for the beginning of RBS was bein developed, THEN it should have been approved...back in 1995. Now we have the absurd situation where the greater Beit Shemesh area has more residents than Modiin, but the roads to Moddin are so good. Why is this issue a political hostage? Precisely because of the first comment, that any approval will be seized upon by the Mayor, in the upcoming elections. And I think that precisely was the reason why the government did not want to approve it. However Dov Lipman was in favour of it, and I'm sure he can claim as much credit as the mayor. Whatever, it should be forbidden to use this in any way as propoganda for any candidate for mayor.
ReplyDeleteI did not give credit to anyone specifically because I don't know who deserves the credit. i am sure it is divided among many people, the mayor included. The original article I linked to does not mention who got it pushed through, nor do any of the new articles published today in other websites...
ReplyDeletemany people over the years have worked on this project. Giving credit to any one specific person (especially if its only base don an assumption) is not fair to the many involved. Unless I am told otherwise, of course - that there really is only one person deserving the credit - though I have yet to hear such a thing.