First Jezreel Valley railway tender published

The estimated cost of the Jezreel Valley railway is US$1.2 billion. The railway is scheduled to be completed in 2016
 
As part of the Netivey Israel plan, the first tender for the project was published last week.The tender is for the construction of a 6.5-kilometer stretch of the line between Kfar Baruch near Migdal Ha'Emek and Nahal Adashim near Afula.
 
Subsequent tenders for the Jezreel Valley railway will be published later this year. The estimated cost of the Jezreel Valley railway is US$1.2 billion (NIS 4 billion -out of the NIS 27.5 billion budget allotted for the Netivei Israel plan last year).
 
The railway is scheduled to be completed in 2016. The Jezreel Valley railway will run 60 kilometers from Haifa to the Bridge over the Jordan River in the Beit SheAn Valley. Trains will be able to travel at 160 km/h on the line.