Regev ditches Tel Aviv Central Bus Station relocation plan

• Published date: 30 May 2023

Transport sources say that the change in the ministry's position stems from Minister of Transport Miri Regev's opposition to the establishment of the terminal in Panorama, a position also expressed by Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana

The plan agreed between the Ministry of Transport and Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality during the previous Minister of Transport Merav Michaeli's term included vacating the central station in two stages. In the first stage, it was planned to build a temporary terminal for most of the buses in the Panorama complex in Tel Aviv, where a terminal without buildings would be set up, similar to the Savidor terminal by Tel Aviv Central railway station. An overnight parking lot for buses would also be set up in the HaLochemim complex until 2024.

In 2027, the Panorama Terminal was supposed to expand its capacity, so that eventually only a small proportion of the thousands of buses currently using the central bus station would continue to do so.

In the second stage a new bus station would be built at the Ben Zvi terminal near the Holon Junction. The Ministry of Transport reckons it...