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Tel Aviv Subway - Planned Subway Lines

Tel Aviv Subway - Red Line

The Red Line is to have 10km (out of a total 22km), underground, with overground usage as a light rail/tram. It is to have 33 stops, 10 of which underground, with an average distance of 500 meters between them. Average distance of the overground stops is 1 km.

The line would run from Bat Yam in the southwest, through Jaffa and central Tel Aviv, and carry on to Petah Tikva, through Ramat Gan and Bnei Brak. A transit station is planned in Tel Aviv Central railway station. It is expected that by 2020, 100 million people would be using this line annually.

Tel Aviv Subway - Green Line

The Green Line - In approval phases; A 14 km line that would run from the west of Rishon LeZion northwards, through Holon, to central Tel Aviv. Only its Tel Avivian rail is planned underground. Expected passengers annually: 50 million.

An extention of the line might run underground through central Tel Aviv's Iben Gvirol Street to the northern neighbourhoods, north to the Yarkon River.

Tel Aviv Subway - Yellow Line

The Yellow Line - In planning phases; A mostly overground tram line, 24 km by length, connecting Kefar Sava and Tel Aviv, and running through Ra'anana, Herzliya and Ramat Ha-Sharon on the way.

A possible extension of this line would run alongside the coastline of Tel Aviv, as an underground system, and connect to the Red Line in Rotschild Boulevard area.

Tel Aviv Subway - Purple Line

The Purple Line - In Planning phases; A 12 km line from Tel Aviv to Qiryat Ono. Most of it is to be overground.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Planned Subway Lines", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki