Tender issued for operating Tel Aviv congestion charge

The General Accountant, the Ministry of Finance, Yale Rothnberg, is published today the tender to operate the charge of crowding in the Tel Aviv region. The tender includes planning, construction, operation and maintenance for the crowding project in the Tel Aviv region, which is scheduled to be launched, according to the law that was launched in 2026, but it is likely to be postponed for one year.

The project content for which the tender will be published for the sites where the dead gates will be placed, the inconsistency of the work involved in the construction, the guarantee of the operation of the fee collection system, the infrastructure and systems maintenance and the operation of the customer service center to collect the charge, with the period of the contract for a period of 22 years, and it will be submitted Bidding in the second half of the year.

Deal with Miri Regev

Legislation was approved to implement the accusation of congestion in the economic arrangements law of the previous government in 2021. After the appointment of Miri Regev, Minister of Transport in early 2023, the tender procedures have been frozen and since then she was arrested in a significant conflict with the Ministry of Finance to implement the charge and enforcement of the law .

However, in recent months, there has been a sign of calm between the two parties. The Ministry of Finance publishes the tender this time so that Regev is not able to cancel it, while, for its part, it will receive, according to the sources, an impressive compensation package, such as financing and balanced for the Kiryat Shmeona railway project, also as other projects.

Government ministries denied any such deal, as “Globes” said last year, but in practice, the crowding charge project is advancing, as well as the project to create Rail Link Kiryat Shuona. “Infrastructure for the future” earlier this month that work on railways would start later this year.

1.3 billion NIS per year

The issuance of the accusation of congestion is another major teacher on its way to carrying out the accusation of crowding in Israel, which will generate 1.3 billion New annually for the state sensors, which will finance public transport projects as well as the metro. The Ministry of Finance seems to have apparently proposed to re -financing the railway to Eilat from the same revenues of congestion. According to the law of congestion, there will be three episodes in the urban Tel Aviv region: an internal, medium and external ring. The congestion fees will be applied to crossing these rings from 6:30 am to 10:00 am. For vehicles heading towards the center, the shipment will be 10 in each in the middle and internal episodes, and NIS 5 in the outer loop. Between 3 pm and 7 pm, the accusation will be 5 in both directions in the internal and medium episodes, and NIS 2.5 in the external episode.

Who will receive an exemption?

During discussions related to the draft law on the Knesset Finance Committee, it was decided to exempt motorcycles and emergency vehicles and rescue from the charge of crowding. After a lot of debate about taxis, it was decided to pay 50 % of the fees, while truck drivers will pay the charge.

The crowding fees entered into force in New York at the beginning of the year, where it joined London, Stockholm and other cities. The accusations have made a revolution in transportation. New York recorded a 7.5 % decrease in traffic, with travel times decreased in major crossings such as the Netherlands and Lincole tunnels by more than 40 % in the morning hours. There was a decrease of about 35 % on the Williamsburg Bridge, and a 21 % decrease on the Brooklyn Bridge.

It was published by Globes, Israel Business News – En.globes.co.il – on February 18, 2025.

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