New Eastern Entrance to Jerusalem's Yitzhak Navon Station Appears Ready but Remains Closed
Translated & summarized from JDN by baba
A new eastern entrance to Jerusalem's Yitzhak Navon train station is complete but remains closed, with no official opening date announced. The facility connects street level, the Shazar parking lot, and the station, featuring elevators, escalators, and staircases across multiple levels. It aims to provide an additional entry and exit point and improve connectivity between the parking lot, street, and train. However, it does not resolve existing elevator congestion within the station.
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- A new eastern entrance to Jerusalem's Yitzhak Navon train station is ready but not yet open.
- The entrance connects street level, the Shazar parking lot, and the train station.
- It includes four elevators, four escalators, and staircases across four levels.
- The facility aims to provide an additional entry and exit point for passengers.
- It offers improved connectivity between the parking lot, street, and train.
- The new entrance does not alleviate existing elevator congestion within the station.
The new eastern entrance to Jerusalem's Yitzhak Navon train station appears complete and ready for operation, though an official opening date has not yet been announced. The project connects the street level, the Shazar parking lot, and the train station itself, offering passengers an additional way to enter and exit.
The eastern entrance structure rises from the Shazar parking lot, adjacent to the station's eastern side, and extends to street level. It is designed to ease passenger flow and provide a more convenient connection between the parking lot, the street, and the train platforms. The new facility includes four elevators, four escalators, and staircases spread across four levels: street level (approx. 812 meters above sea level), level 808 (where the existing station security check is located), a technical passage level at 803, and level 799 (housing ticket validation gates and the upper end of an escalator shaft).
Two buildings at street level house the entrance facilities. One contains two elevators and emergency stairs, while the other has two escalators linking the street to level 808. The street elevators serve the lower three levels of the entrance but do not reach the parking lot floors; access to the Shazar parking lot requires transferring to dedicated parking lot elevators. The connection at level 808 is primarily for exiting the station towards the parking lot or street. Turnstiles at this level prevent entry from the parking lot or street directly onto the station platforms.
Passengers arriving from the platforms must ascend to level 808 to access the new entrance. From there, they can proceed to the parking lot or the street via escalators or elevators. Level 803 serves as a transit point due to engineering constraints, with escalators connecting level 808 to level 799. At level 799, a new security checkpoint allows entry into the station from the eastern entrance. This checkpoint is intended to alleviate congestion at the existing security checks for passengers arriving from the street.
Despite the new entrance, the congestion on the three existing elevators connecting the station's lower and upper levels is not resolved, as the new elevators primarily serve the eastern entrance and the parking lot. Passengers needing to use elevators from the platforms will continue to rely on the current system. Additional solutions for elevator congestion are reportedly being advanced. The primary benefit of the new eastern entrance is the additional entry route and improved connectivity between the parking lot, street, and train.