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Item #2 (Advanced Level)

The Train is Coming

Take a note of this promise: after four years of delays and five years of
working at record pace, the fast train line from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv will
open next Passover. This is one of the biggest and most complicated
engineering projects in Israel, the cost of which is about seven billion NIS.
Passengers will be able to get to the platforms in three stages of escalators,
or via an elevator that reaches deep underground. According to the plan,
the fast train will get you from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem or vice versa in just
twenty eight minutes, at a speed of a hundred and sixty kilometers per
hour. Besides the express line, passengers could enjoy additional lines that
would stop at Ben Gurion airport and Modi’in. But pay attention, getting
in and out of the train will take you and additional seven minutes, the
duration of time it would take to go back to the ground from a project
located eighty meters under the ground. And how much will this cost us?
The Ministry of Transportation still can’t commit to the final ticket price,
but promise perks. So after years of promises, it seems that the passengers
can already see the light at the end of the tunnel, now (we) can only hope
that the new stations will open on the scheduled date, and with no
malfunctions.

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