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A new metropolitan light rail system train on a test run passes through the Jaffa district of Tel Aviv. The new rail line is expected to cater to 70 million passengers a year.
Photographer: Corinna Kern/Bloomberg
One of the World’s Most Expensive Cities Is Finally Getting a Metro
Tel Aviv’s new red line took more than two decades to build, rather than the six years intended. The full train project, though, is still far off and will cost tens of billions of dollars more.
Wildfire Smoke Threatens to Wipe Out Decades of Air Pollution Progress
New York and Chicago saw more dangerous air days in June and July than in the past 23 years of US data.