page_title: Tel Aviv Light Rail
section_title: Red Line
hierarchical_section_title: Tel Aviv Light Rail / Planned lines / Red Line
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Les rames du métro de Tel Aviv en essais dans leurs usines en Chine en juin 2019.
context_page_description: The Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area Mass-Transit System is a planned mass transit system for the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area. The system will include different types of rapid transit like light rail, bus and more.
  Work on the Red Line, the first in the project, started on September 21, 2011, following years of preparatory works and numerous delays. The Red line is planned to open in 2021. Construction of the Purple line started in December 2018. Work on the Green line was set to begin in January 2019.
context_section_description: About 10 kilometres (6 mi) of the 22 kilometres (14 mi) Red Line is to be built underground, with the remaining overground segment constructed in as a light rail/tram. It is to have 33 stops, 10 of which would be underground, with an average distance of about 500 metres between underground stops and of about 1000 metres between overground stops. The line would run from Bat Yam in the southwest, through Jaffa and central Tel Aviv, and carry on to Petah Tikva, through Ramat Gan and Bnei Brak. An interchange is planned for Tel Aviv Central railway station. It has been forecast that by 2020, 100 million people would be using this line annually.
  Stations (underground in italics): Nissenbaum, HaAmal, Kaf Tet BeNovember, Yoseftal, Bar Ilan, Balfour, Jabotinsky, Rothschild, HaAztmaut, Machrozet, HaBaashat, Issakov, Erlich, Ben Tzvi, Salame, Elifelet, Allenby, Carlebach, Yehudit, Shaul HaMelech, Arlozorov, Abba Hillel, Bialik, Ben-Gurion, Aharonowitz. From Aharonowitz, one branch continues to Shenkar, Rabin, Beilinson, Dankner, Orlov, Pinsker, Petah Tikva Central Bus Station (Terminal); another continues to Em HaMoshavot and the Kiryat Aryeh Maintenance Depot.
  The work on Allenby station began on February 8, 2015.
caption: Tel Aviv Light Rail Rolling Stock out of the CRRC  factory in China, June 2019.
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