Friday, October 7 2022
Neve Paritzki (נווה פריצקי)Jerusalem's first cycling tunnel is open in Israel
By neve.paritzkigbel671ii on Friday, October 7 2022, 04:16
The Kerem Tunnel, the first bicycle tunnel in Israel is now open in the Jerusalem Ring Path, a 42-kilometer cycle route that circles the capital city.
The tunnel is located along the Nahal Refaim-Emek Motza path. The tunnel's southern entry point is located within Refaim Park below Ein Laban. While the northern entrance is in Nahal Ein Kerem about half one kilometer from the Kerem junction.
Inauguration of the tunnel, which is 2.1 kilometers long, was held in Jerusalem and the Heritage Minister Ze'ev Elkin, Mayor Moshelion and Avi Baleshnikov (Gihon water company chairman of the company) along with hundreds of cyclists.
Jerusalem was a popular tourist destination because of its glorious past. Today, apart from its historic treasures it also has modern tourism." Elkin said. "The opening of this tunnel project [is] another part in the development Jerusalem. The tunnel transforms the city into an attractive tourist place for every kind of person within Israel as well as around the world."
Elkin who, through his ministry and the Jerusalem Municipality led the project, said that his ministry "invests hundreds to millions of shekels per year in the development all aspects Jerusalem's tourism and the design and operation of new attractions, ventures and attractions which connect the rich past of Jerusalem's eternal city to the future". I encourage you to take your bicycles along a beautiful maintained, well-maintained path that looks out over Old Jerusalem.
A total of NIS 25 million were earmarked in the project, budgeted by Elkin's ministry, the Tourism Ministry, the Jerusalem Municipality and the Gihon Corporation and the Jerusalem Purification and Sewerage Works, and the work was carried out by the Jerusalem Development Authority.
"The Kerem Tunnel project is the central instrument for achieving the idea to change the concept of transportation in Jerusalem," Elkin stressed. "The new tunnel connecting to Jerusalem Ring Path will join the existing bike paths as well as those that will paved in its neighborhoods. It is intended to encourage biking among the residents of Jerusalem and encourage the green transport revolution in the capital."
The Kerem Tunnel was first excavated in the late 1990s to relocate the main sewer line of the Gihon Corporation toward the purification plant in Sorek The Sorek Tunnel is located just west of the city. It is currently used as an infrastructure tunnel. It also includes the fifth water line that connects to Jerusalem of the Mekorot water company.
"The Kerem tunnel project is essential to achieving the vision for changing Jerusalem's transportation system. "
Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon
Construction of roads installation, blowers, sophisticated security systems and electrical wiring are all part and parcel of the current construction. https://nevefrietzki.co.il/ The tunnel will be safe for people to use all entire year.
The Kerem Tunnel provides access to unique recreation locations, including Ein Kerem neighbourhood, the Biblical aquarium and zoo as also the historical natural springs Ein Haniyeh, Ein Laban and Ein Haniyeh.