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Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Fri Sep 16 05:13:21 2011, in response to Re: PHOTOS from Jerusalem, posted by caine515 on Thu Sep 15 19:09:48 2011. Funny how this question comes up in nearly every thread.In that particular neighborhood, the streets are closed to traffic during Shabbat, which is Friday sundown to Saturday nightfall, and also on holidays. On a more general level, the last Egged intracity trips in Jerusalem depart from the end of the line about 90-120 hours before Shabbat starts in a given week, and resumes about 45-60 minutes after Shabbat ends on Saturday (the same goes for holidays, except Yom Kippur, when service ends earlier than usual and takes a bit longer to start up again). For example, the last bus to my neighborhood this afternoon leaves the other end of the line at 4:35 PM and gets to my end of the line at 5:35 PM. Shabbat starts at 6:08 PM this week. Tomorrow night, Shabbat ends at 7:20 PM, and the first bus from my neighborhood is at 7:40 PM, which seems a bit early to me, but whatever. The drivers do report to the garage and start deadheading to their first trips before Shabbat ends. Intercity service is a bit more complicated, the schedule for Friday and Saturday depends on the length of the route. Some routes leave their origins before Shabbat ends but don't get to Jerusalem until after Shabbat ends. I believe there are some daytime services from Eilat to Tel Aviv. Also, some municipalities have agreements where some routes do operate on Saturdays, for example, in Haifa, some routes operate 1-2 times per hour most of the day, and the night lines (after midnight service) operate on Fridays whereas they don't operate on Fridays anywhere else in the country. Some Tel Aviv buses start in the late afternoon instead of after nightfall Saturday. For holidays, it works the same way as for Shabbat, except for Yom Kippur as I pointed out. However, since holidays here only have full levels of observance for one day instead of two as is done elsewhere in the world (with the exception of Rosh Hashanah, which is still two days here), there will be regular Friday bus service on October 14 and 21, as well as on the preceding evenings. Some services are increased during the intermediate days of Sukkot and Passover to meet higher demand to destinations such as the Zoo in Jerusalem, other services run less frequently during the holidays. Let me know if you have other questions about this, I'd be more than happy to explain. |
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