More Holiday Fun

The thing with Yom Kippur is that is that it means I have offically been in Israel for a year now. Yom Kippur 2006 was my first Jewish Holiday in Tel Aviv, and now I have officially done one full cycle. Like last year, I took to the streets cause nobody drives, but this time I upgraded. First, I have a new bike. I bought myself this bike on major sale from this bike shop on Pinsker. Total impulse buy, but I'm really happy I did it. Tel Aviv is a great city to bike in because it is small, compact, and flat. There are definitely some streets to avoid, and I ride strictly on the sidewalk or on designated biking lanes (there are quite a bit actually). Drivers and Pedestrians in this city are not bike friendly.
So I took my bike to areas that I would not get to otherwise so I could get some cool photos. This is what the highway looked like at 3pm. Nothing at all. This is right between two major exits on the Ayalon (the highway that cuts through the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. I got on at Arolozerof and rode south a kilometer to Hashalom exit. It was so eerie. This is the exact area that has the most intense rush hour traffic, and there was nobody there. I literally just got rode down the onramp and into this empty 5 lane highway.
When you get off Hashalom exit you hit what is probably one of the most convoluted intersections I have ever seen. The intersection of Namir/Begin and Hashalom/Kaplan right in front of the Azrieli towers is equivalent to the horrific intersection of the entrance to the Holland Tunnel from 7th Ave. in Manhattan. It is that intense. And yet at 3:30 on Saturday there was nobody.

Tomorrow I sit with my lab partner to start plowing through our Econometrics project, which I will definitely post about at a later date.