Route 531 (Israel)

Route 531 (Hebrew: כביש 531‎), is a suburban freeway in the southern Sharon region of Israel, just north of the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area.

Herzliya–Ra'anana extension

While the highway begins at Highway 6 and currently terminates in Kfar Sava, in 2008 a PFI tender was issued to continue constructing the highway towards the Mediterranean coast. By doing so it will pass nearby several large cities and provide an important connection between all the major north-south highways in the region: Highway 6, Highway 4, Highway 20 (the Ayalon Highway), and Highway 2 (the Coastal Highway). The project also includes constructing a dual-track railway and several passenger stations in the median of the highway along nearly the entire length of the road (using a design similar to the recently-completed Route 431 suburban freeway).

Shapir Engineering won the tender to extend the road and railway, but due to financial disagreements and complications caused by the worldwide financial crisis, the government canceled the PFI tender in the summer of 2010. Instead, the project will be funded directly by the treasury and managed by the National Roads Company and be split off to several sections, each of which will be tendered separately at an estimated total cost of NIS 4 billion (equivalent to slightly over US$1 billion), a move which will postpone completion by three years, to late 2015 at the earliest.^[1]

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