BETHLEHEM, West Bank – It’s Christmas season and the little town of Bethlehem is jammed with a big-city problem: Traffic snarling streets everywhere, including around the church marking the spot where tradition says Jesus was born.
The city is considering a dramatic solution to the problem — digging a tunnel under Manger Square.
Traffic is a mess year-round. It may be the biblical town of grottos and shepherds’ fields in the minds of many around the world, but Bethlehem is a modern densely populated town of 28,000 with a dizzying weave of small streets that practically guarantee traffic jams.
“Bethlehem is going through a crisis,” said Anton Salman, a city councilor. “We think that the solution to this traffic is to build an underground passage between the two sides of the square.” More
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