With the trains being taken offline for 8 days for work on the tracks for the high-speed train, some questions seem to remain unanswered...

1. if the trains were going to be "down" for 8 days anyway, why couldn't that work that was "necessary" to be done on Shabbos be done during this planned outage instead?

2. while the rail administration supposedly did a good job of arranging shuttles and coordinating with bus companies to have more buses available at the canceled lines, where were the parties offering to arrange rides for soldiers as was done when the Shabbos work was canceled?

3. what's with the 8 days? Should we expect some sort of "Hanukkah miracle"? in reverse maybe it will be finished in 1 day, or maybe it is really 1 day of work that they are stretching into 8 days.