The Metropolitan Mass Transit System Ltd was founded in 1997 and charged with planning and implementing the mass transit urban network, provisionally the country’s largest infrastructure project. The Transportation and Finance Ministries presented plans Sunday for five new light rail lines and 27 kilometers of tracks, set to cover Jerusalem by 2024. The plan would see Eilat turn into a metropolitan area numbering 150,000 residents. The project is a PPP (Private-Public Partnership) scheme, and includes the construction of 27 kilometres of new track, 53 new stations and various depots covering the entire stretch of the current Red Line (6.8 kilometres), which transports more than 145,000 passengers each year, and the construction of the new Green Line which is 20.6 km long. The project, a public-private partnership, will be the largest of its kind in Israel to date. Good news bro! The plans were developed in the late 1990s and released in 2000. Railway projects in Israel: Progress and opportunities [free access] September 1, 2018.

TransIsrael company is responsible for the Light Rail project between Haifa and Nazareth - a national mega-project that will serve the northern population and connect communities across the Galilee and Haifa metropolitan area. The Red line is planned to open in 2021. Work on the Red Line, the first in the project, started on September 21, 2011, following years of preparatory works and numerous delays. They brought a new concept of a mixed light rail and metro mass transit, with both underground and ground levelrunning. Minister Katz asked Netivei Israel to assemble a planning team for the light rail project to Samaria. The Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area Mass-Transit System is a planned mass transit system for the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area. Upgrading the public space is definitely a goal of the light rail project, says city planner Dr. Yoav Lerman, cautioning that it must learn from previous mistakes.

‍ This unique project, being a first of its kind in Israel, combines urban and inter-urban public transportation. The first phase is two lines costing around $3bn. Israeli Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz and employees of China Railway Engineering Corporation mark the beginning of underground construction work on a light rail project in Tel Aviv. The system will include different types of rapid transit like light rail, bus and more. Currently, the Red Line is the only one in operation, the first of several light rail lines planned in Jerusalem. An extension of Line 1 from Neve Ya’akov neighborhood to Kiryat Menachem was completed in April 2011. The red line will be the first section of a Light rail system the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, known as Tel Aviv Light Rail.The line will run from Bat Yam in the south to Petah Tikva in the northeast with a significant portion of it underground. Description: This map shows Light Rail lines and stations in Jerusalem. The government has announced launched various rail projects to cater to the increasing demand of a growing population. The project Netivei Israel (National Transport Infrastructure Company) will construct the NIS 4 billion (USD 1.15 billion) project, which will connect Ariel, Rosh HaAyin, and Petah Tikva. The total cost of the red line is estimated at NIS 11 billion or, approximately US$3 billion. Public transportation development in Israel has picked up pace in the last two decades. Trial services of the light rail project began in August 2011 and the services were fully started in December 2011. The China Railway Tunnel Group won a nearly NIS 3 billion ($800 million) bid to help build Tel Aviv’s long-awaited light rail, largest project award to date in Israel. When the light rail project was nationalized, NTA − at the behest of Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz ‏(Likud‏) − became an arm of the government, and suddenly took on new dimensions. A metro network consisting of three lines will be built in Tel Aviv, Israel’s minister of transport and intelligence, Mr Yisrael Katz, has announced.

‍ In the 2010s the Israeli government approved the construction of a new port and airport for Eilat, a railway, upgraded highways and a light rail system.