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Super Highway
Is A Priority

GAIL LICHTMAN
SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

I

n December 1994, despite
fierce opposition by agricul-
tural groups and environ-
mentalists, the planned 300
kilometer-long, north-south
Trans-Israel Highway, was ap-
proved by the Knesset.
The superhighway, also known
as Road 6, will bisect Israel from
Beersheba in the south to Rosh
Hanikra in the north, and is seen
by its proponents as the last great
hope to relieve increasingly un-
manageable traffic congestion in
Israel's heavily-populated central
region.
Israel has one of the world's
highest rates of vehicle increase
— between 6-7 percent annually
— which within a decade will
bring the number of vehicles on
the country's roads from today's
1.2 million to more than 2 mil-
lion.
"Our studies show that by the
year 2010, unless Road 6 is built,
roads in the central region — and
that includes roads still to be built
— will be saturated," says Arye
Shabtai, public relations director
for the Trans-Israel Highway
Corporation, a government cre-
ated company mandated with
building Road 6.
In 1992, in light of these facts,
the Israel government decided to
designate the building of Road 6,

Owners of property
will gain.

which had been bandied about on
drawing boards since 1976, a na-
tional priority. It was at this time
that the Trans-Israel Highway
Corporation was established and
efforts moved into high gear.
The $2 billion-plus highway is
the largest transportation project
ever to be undertaken in Israel.
It will have up to 12 lanes in some
sections (eight main lanes and
two two-lane service lanes on
each side), include some 20 in-
terchanges, and will serve up to
250,000 vehicles daily by the year
2010.
The route of this "flagship of
Israel transportation," as Hous-
ing and Construction Minister
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer called it,
will run through the heart of
what is today largely agricultur-
al land, thereby dissecting north-
south traffic from heavily
traveled urban routes. This, says
the Trans-Israel Highway Cor-
poration, will mean less air and
noise pollution and a better qual-
ity of life. _