[RBS] Letter published in the Chadash about the improvements to Road #38

[Ephrayim Naiman]

Two weeks ago, the Chadash printed an "exclusive report" on the
improvements expected in the next ~4 years on Road 38.  All in all -
important work and very overdue.

Below is a letter I sent in to them.
If anybody can help set up a meeting directly with Misrad Hatachbura,
I would love to participate.

Behatzlacha to all of us!

-Ephrayim Naiman
ejnaiman at gmail.com
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The improvements to Route #38 as reported by Chadash in last week's
Hebrew section are a great beginning.  It would be helpful if Chadash
reported back to Misrad Hatachbura the following:

1. These improvements only fulfill part of the recommendations
submitted by The Transportation Ministry and Beit Shemesh in 2004 and
2005.  That report, from 7 years ago, was based on expected population growth of
160,000 residents by 2020.
Since the number has now increased to 250,000, a 2-lane road each way
will not be enough.

2. The improvements only deal with the section till Nacham, the next
section until RBS (about the same distance) has no improvements planned.
Since almost all the growth in the coming years will be in RBS-A,
RBS-C and RBS-D, it is *critical* that #38 from Nacham to RBS be worked
on immediately.  Otherwise, all we've done is moved the traffic jam a
few kilometers down the road :-(

In summary - Beit Shemesh should:

1. Immediately continue increasing the access roads' infrastructure
2. Reduce the amount of new residents until the access roads catchup
3. Build local Industrial Zones and commercial areas, so less people
need to use #38.

Otherwise, we'll be suffering with massive traffic jams for tens of
years to come.

Finally, our intra-city roads are also over-loaded and unfortunately
no serious solutions are being worked on that yet either.

-Ephrayim Naiman