Israel Railways CEO: We aim for 300m passengers by 2040

“We are in the Railway Revolution,” said Moshe Jana, CEO of Israel Railways Company in Globe,.

He explained his words by saying that today there is an investment for “67 billion NIS in the Israeli railway infrastructure, and with all the cuts that we went through, the Minister of Transport and the Director General of the Ministry insisted that a shekel not touch a railway projects.

Jana added that the plan is “doubling the amount of tracks, so that by 2040 we already have a course of 2,600 km. In terms of passengers, we will have 105 million in 2030 and 300 million in 2040. These are not fake numbers, but the numbers that we are part of The five -year plan.

Plan: Two -hour trains to West Negif – from August

Jana also tackled criticism that there is only one train per hour on the line that serves the Western Negev, which was reopened this week only: “In a fast recovery process after October 7, we managed to open all stations, except for one section that I banned from work Southern.

Regarding the expected decision to invest in the near future only in the current infrastructure and not in the new infrastructure of the Israeli railway, he said: “This is a bad decision. The future of the railway and without that, there is no future.

In this context, he also answered the rumors that his relationship to working with Israeli general manager Nessim Bertz is not good: “Nissim Bertz is a friend of the army, and all rumors are” nonsense “. I do not agree and this is normal.

Full Disclosure: The conference was sponsored by Ackerstein, CAF, ISRAEL RAILWAYS, Netivei ISRAEL, EGGED and Ashdod Port and Mekorot.

It was published by Globes, Israel Business News – En.globles.co.il – on February 3, 2025.

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