{"id":593385,"date":"2026-08-23T09:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T09:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/593385\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T09:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T09:50:11","slug":"it-took-15-years-to-expand-jerusalems-light-rail-was-it-worth-the-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/593385\/","title":{"rendered":"It Took 15 Years to Expand Jerusalem&#8217;s Light Rail. Was It Worth the Wait?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supporters with shirts reading &#8216;The train is coming&#8217; on Friday. Credit: Itay Cohen<\/p>\n<p class=\"x1xlr1w8 xo0frwk x91ggtz x1sv1lhw x126s5kd x1az39ph xscq4an x1yb4bg0 xpiheen xemlk5x x103v3yr\" data-testid=\"article-subtitle\">Jerusalem&#8217;s new light rail section finally opened Friday after years of construction and delys, adding 7 kilometers and 12 stations to the city&#8217;s network. But low frequency and closures raise questions about whether the long-awaited upgrade is enough<\/p>\n<p>Image: Supporters with shirts reading &#8216;The train is coming&#8217; on Friday. Credit: Itay Cohen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Supporters with shirts reading &#8216;The train is coming&#8217; on Friday. Credit: Itay Cohen Jerusalem&#8217;s new light rail section&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,2648,3794,43,1510,12185],"class_list":["post-593385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-economy","tag-jerusalem","tag-news","tag-transportation","tag-ultra-orthodox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}