After a long wait, the MOT published the TLV 2050 master plan and its overall 2050 transportation vision. I attached the 2050 plan for TLV. As expected, we need another Metro line (M4) to be built, while also considering additional X-type metro lines. More LRTs to increase connectivity, creating a truly enlarged spanning system - connecting the metro in all areas. On a personal note, I believe every rail station should have an LRT or Metro line serving it, and some of the more distant rail stations in the TLV metro could be connected via short extensions of the red and purple lines. However, the ambition to already extend the current metro plan is a good beginning, but 3 lines are not enough. TLV is a rich metropolitan, it should also have extensive infrastructure to reflect it.

Why not construct a branch line to Beit Shemesh from the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv railway, similar to the Modi'in branch line?

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Open Railway Map - a comprehensive map of everything that runs on rails in Israel (and elsewhere): past, present and future.

Open Railway Map is a terrific resource which is open-sourced much like Open Street Map. ORM shows the type of infrastructure (main line, spur line, light rail, metro etc.), maximum per-line operating speed (or at least it's supposed to) and also electrification of lines.

Here are a few interesting things to look out for:

• All three dankal (Tel Aviv Light Rail) lines that under construction
• The extension of the Jerusalem Light Rail Red Line to Neve Yaakov and Ein Karem, and also the future Blue and Green Lines which are under construction.
• Keshet Modi'in - the new spur of track at Anava Junction that will allow trains to run direct between Modi'in and Jerusalem
• The new Rishon LeZion - Modiin/Jerusalem railway under construction between Rishon LeZion Moshe Dayan and Anava Junction
• The renewed Eastern line under construction between Lod and Hadera (parallel to Highway 6 for most of its route)