A subway was proposed for Tel Aviv. The city’s planning commission decided Tuesday that the second line of a metropolitan light railway system slated to be ready in 2012 should run underground. But the Transportation Ministry came out against the proposal, saying a subway would cost more than five times as much as an aboveground railway.
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