On the day it opened, Tel Aviv's Darom (South ) train station was thronged with people. On one wall read the inscription: "Gateway to the capital, the Negev and the Arava." At the opening ceremony on a chilly November day in 1970, Transportation Minister Shimon Peres cut the ribbon at the station that was supposed to connect the country's south to the center.
How Tel Aviv's Darom station went off the rails
The architect of the city's disused railway station looks back on a project that was set up to fail. Now he wants to turn it into a farmers' market.
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