They should have built an overground/underground train rail yonks ago. Fire the city planners!!

Do what all major cities are now doing... restrict the flow of cars into tlv... charge every private car a fee for using the core streets of the city... and who were the planning idiots who put that causeway between the hotels and the beach?

i just got a 500 shekel fine the other day. the police are going on a ticket writing spree over here also.

ummm that adds up to 1500000 NIS a day - Ummm i wonder where all the money ends up? presumin that people actually pay up .

Ticketing and fining these thousands of poor people every day might be a good way of bolstering city coifers, but it is a clear case of governmental inefficiency and incompetence rolled over onto the public. Nothing is more oppressive than to create a situation where the public has no choice but to park illegally. What? They should walk to work or take trains which don't go anywhere near where their business takes them? One relatively quick solution is to build numerous multistoreyed parking garages all over the city with bus access.

While public transportation in the Tel Aviv area is much better than in the Jerusalem area, much remains to be done. A real efficient, cheap, fast and safe public transportation network would be the optimal solution. Creating even more parking lots (there are a *lot* already!) will only make the city even uglier and dirtier. Aren't there enough cars in our cities already? Did you ever look at the traffic jams? You want EVEN MORE cars in the city centers?!

You suggest that adding more parking spaces will lead to more cars. You fail. You think there will be less traffic by reducing parking spaces? What part of 324,000 spaces too few ALREADY do you not understand? By your reasoning the streets should be practically vacant RIGHT NOW. FAIL.

"efficient, cheap, fast, safe, public transportation network." You mean like they have in ..... where exactly?

they should turn tel aviv into a european such as london where people automatically pay for entering the city with their car we should also set up biking docks like in spain and build a subway system for mass transportation.

For those commuting:start using the excelent Israeli trains and then take a taxi or better yet ,a bus. For Tel Avivians:use your legs;use buses and in the last case,use a taxi. Isn't that very simple? Let the car to be used ONLY when is impossible another solution. I don't even have a car anymore,and I can tell you:I AM SOOOOOOO HAPPY with the solution!!!!

If you can find a lot open, you pay, go in and find at least one quarter of the lot with stooges that can't park. They have to take 2 parking spaces, park sideways, over lines, but hey, they got a space. Streets are no better.

Tel Aviv, and a cab from the train station anywhere will cost less than the fine and get you there more quickly. "Efficient, cheap and fast" are relative terms, but NYC has a great public transportation system, so do Berlin, Munich, Oslo and Prague (the 22 bus is not safe, full of thugs and pickpockets, but you can't have everything). However, vox populi, vox dei, if people are going to drive they might as well have somewhere to park, why not just build 20-story parking garages and have done with it, expend the energy and angst on something else.