Red Line (Tel Aviv Light Rail)

Red Line
Red line of the Tel Aviv Light Rail (Dankal), Jerusalem Boulevard
Overview
Locale	Tel Aviv, Petah Tikva, Bnei Brak, Ramat Gan, Bat Yam
Termini	Petah Tikva Central Bus Station Kiryat Aryeh depot HaKomemiyut (Bat Yam)
Stations	34
Website	www.dankal.co.il/new-service-lines-and-stations/?lang=en
Service
Type	Light rail
System	Tel Aviv Light Rail
Services	R1 - CBS Petah Tikva - HaKomemiyut R2 - Kiryat Arye - HaKomemiyut R3 - Kiryat Arye - Elifelet
Operator(s)	Tevel Metro
Depot(s)	Kiryat Aryeh depot
Rolling stock	CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles LRV
Daily ridership	70,000[1]
History
Opened	August 18, 2023
Technical
Line length	24 km (15 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	1500 V DC OHLE
Operating speed	50 km/h (31 mph) in Street Level 70 km/h (43 mph) Underground
Route map Legend Petach Tikva CBS Pinsker Krol Dankner Beilinson Shacham Shenkar Kiryat Arye Em HaMoshavot Bridge Aharonovich Ben-Gurion Bialik Abba Hillel Arlosoroff Sha'ul HaMelekh Yehudit Carlebach Allenby Elifelet Shalma (Salame) Bloomfield Stadium Ehrlich Isakov HaBesht Machrozet Ha'Atsma'ut Rothschild Jabotinsky Balfour Binyamin Yoseftal Kaf Tet BeNovember He'Amal HaKomemiyut This diagram: view talk edit

The Red Line is the first section of a light rail system in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, known as the Tel Aviv Light Rail. The line runs from Bat Yam in the south to Petah Tikva in the northeast with a significant portion of it underground. The total cost of the red line is estimated at NIS 11 billion or, approximately US$3 billion. Construction began in 2011, with the testing phase of the line beginning only a decade later, in 2021.^[2] After numerous delays concerning the security and safety of the line, it eventually opened on August 18, 2023 with a 100,000+ daily ridership over just 8 hours of operation.^[3]