Tel Aviv’s Fourth Track: Trains, Floods, & Migrating Birds

All about the Ayalon Railway—Israel's busiest rail corridor. Why does Tel Aviv’s downtown have only three intercity tracks? What problems does that cause? How will the fourth track solve it? What role do floods play in the story? And how are migrating birds related to a civil engineering project? Timeline 0:00 Israel’s Economic Capital 2:37 History 6:38 Ayalon Strikes Back 8:37 The Fourth Track 10:56 Into the Future Corrections: 2:47 Tel Aviv North station was the name of what is today Bnei Brak station, and Tel Aviv Central (Savidor) was always called Central. Image Sources Tel Aviv North (Savidor/Central) under construction, TLV Online, from Tel Aviv municipal archive: https://tlvonline.co.il/%d7%94%d7%a2%... Tel Aviv South station, 2020, McKaby: https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%... https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%... Ayalon wadi, Tel Aviv 100, circa 1960s:   / 10157904436483460   Tel Aviv South Station, circa 1946, unknown photographer, PikiWiki, Israeli Internet Society: https://www.pikiwiki.org.il/image/vie... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Ayalon highway under construction, Mori Radar, circa 1980s, Tel Aviv municipal archive, via TLV online: https://tlvonline.co.il/%D7%A0%D7%97%... Music “Workin'on the railroad”, olleaugust: https://pixabay.com/music/modern-coun... Maps All maps produced from https://www.govmap.gov.il/ Special thanks to Zahi Shaked, who for the second time in this channel’s history, agreed to share footage. This time of the 2013 flood in the Ayalon in Tel Aviv:    • נחל איילון עלה על גדותיו. תראו את עוצמת המ...