Highway 22 (Israel)

Highway 22 (Hebrew: כביש 22‎) is a partially built suburban freeway in the Haifa metropolitan area. The freeway is currently 4 km long, connecting downtown Haifa with the city's northern exit to the Krayot area.

When completed, the freeway will be 17 km long, bypassing the Krayot and providing an alternative route to Highway 4. Also, some of the existing interchanges will be improved to connect to the Carmel Tunnels and to provide a direct connection to Highway 75.

The highway is divided into two parts:

• The Kishon Road is a 5 km long urban section from Hiram interchange in downtown Haifa to Yigael Yadin interchange. The first stage of the Kishon Road was built by Haifa's municipal Yefe Nof company and opened in 2005. Mevo Carmel Interchange opened on January 12, 2010^[1], eliminating a dangerous railway crossing on the way to the Krayot. The next stage will include the construction of the connections to the Carmel Tunnels and Highway 75.
• The Krayot Bypass is a 12 km long suburban section bypassing the Krayot area. There have been plans to create an alternative road to the congested Haifa - Acre road since the 1970s, however financial and bureaucratic issues prevented these plans from being realized. Today, 90% of the issues of land voidance are solved, and the freeway project is managed by the National Roads Authority.^[2] Shapir Marine and Civil Engineering Ltd. won the tender to construct this part of the highway, the work on which commenced in 2010 and is expected to take 3-4 years to complete. The entire cost of this segment is estimated at NIS 1.9 billion (approximately US$500 million).

Interchanges

External links

• Official site (in Hebrew).
• Project information from Yafe Nof.

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