How much did the Tel Aviv–Jerusalem high-speed railway cost to build?
The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem railway (the A1 or King David line) is a 56 km electrified double-track express line branching from the Tel Aviv–Lod railway at Ganot to Jerusalem Navon station, with five tunnels (the longest 11.5 km) and eight bridges, one 100 m above the Arazim Valley. Conceived in the 1990s, built from 2001, its Ben Gurion Airport section opened in October 2018 and the full line to Jerusalem on 21 December 2019, eleven years after the 2008 target. The Times of Israel puts the total cost at NIS 7 to 9 billion (USD 2 to 2.6 billion), about four times the original plan, and Railway Technology says NIS 7 billion.
Published project estimate
ILS 8 billion
Approximately $2.24 billion
Cost basis: 2019
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- Total lengthRailway Technology
- 56 km
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