Light Rail
The first line of the Jerusalem Light Rail network was completed in 2010 with the erection of Santiago Calatrava's Chords Bridge over Jaffa Road. The first line is at the height of its construction and is slated to begin operating from Pisgat Ze'ev in the northeast, through French Hill and Jaffa Road to the Central Bus Station and the southwestern neighborhoods early in 2010. The date of the opening of the line has had delays. The beginning of public operation is now scheduled for 19 August 2011, with 14 trains and a maximum headway of 12 minutes. Unusually for a city with a population of over 700,000, Jerusalem never had a previous first generation tramway network, although, before the war, one was proposed but was canceled for political reasons.
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