What this site is
telavivmetro.org is an independent guide to the Tel Aviv light rail: the Red Line that runs today, and the Purple and Green lines and the metro lines being planned and built. It is not the website of NTA, Tevel or the Ministry of Transport, and it is not affiliated with any of them: we do not sell tickets, we cannot load a Rav-Kav and we cannot handle a complaint or a refund. For that, contact the operator.
What we do is put in one place a page for every station, the map, the timetable, fares, a route planner and what is known about the future lines, written to be read on a phone on the platform. The site is funded by advertising.
What the October 2026 review found
On October 11, 2026 we checked every page against the Ministry of Transport’s official schedule data, and a lot had to change.
Fares. We had written that ₪8 covers the Red Line end to end. It does not: under the official fare rules, 22 long station pairs — between southern Bat Yam and eastern Petah Tikva — cost ₪14.50. The fare table had mistakes too: 40–75 km is ₪19, and the daily cap is ₪17.50 or ₪29; ₪32.50 is the cap only when Israel Railways is included.
Hours and journey times. The first train leaves at 05:30, not 05:00. End to end takes about 70 minutes, not 54, and in the southern section our station-to-station times were far off: HaKomemiyut to Allenby is about 38 minutes, not 20.
The shape of the line. Em HaMoshavot Bridge and Kiryat Arye were shown as stops on the way to Petah Tikva. They are a separate branch ending at Kiryat Arye, and trains to Petah Tikva do not pass through them. The diagram, the travel-time tables and the route planner have been rebuilt to match.
Future lines. The Green Line will meet the Red Line at Carlebach, and the Purple Line at Arlozorov and Yehuda HaLevi; we had them the other way round. All 43 Purple Line stations will be at street level, and it is expected to open in 2028. And on the English pages, 24 street-level stations had been called “elevated”.
What is live and what is not
Nothing on this site is live. The Ministry of Transport does not publish open real-time data for the light rail, so there is nothing to connect to. The hours widget is based on the published schedule and labeled that way. It cannot see a delay or a breakdown, and it does not pretend to.
The light rail does not run on Shabbat or on holidays, and the Friday finishing time changes with the seasons.
Where each fact comes from
Stations, station order, hours, frequencies and journey times: the Ministry of Transport’s official GTFS schedule, edition of October 10, 2026.
Fares: the fare rules in the same feed and the Ministry of Transport’s price table.
Lines under construction and in planning: NTA and Ayalon Highways and, where they are silent, Wikipedia; dates are forecasts and can change.
What is near each station: our own writing, checked against the map; walking times are estimates.
When we get it wrong
We fix it and we say what was fixed — this page is the example. Where this site and the operator disagree, the operator is right. If you spot something that does not add up, write to [email protected].
Who is behind this site
This site is run by the team at GoRandom, a small group based in the Basque Country in Spain who do two things that go together better than they sound: travel, and build websites.
Tel Aviv is not yet one of the cities we have set foot in — we are up to twenty and we move slowly. We would rather say so than pretend otherwise: what you read here does not come from our memories, it comes from what the operator publishes and from checking work we can show you.
The other half of what we know how to do is web development, and this site is the excuse to put the two together. We do not leave it sitting there: every fare and every timetable carries its source and the date we checked it, and they get revised when the operator changes something. The last thorough revision was on October 11, 2026, when every Red Line journey time, timetable and fare was recalculated from the Ministry of Transport’s official schedule data.
He decides what goes up, checks the data before it does, and answers the email. If you find a fare that has expired or a timetable that no longer holds, there is a specific person to write to.