Highway 22 (Israel)

Highway 22 (Hebrew: כביש 22‎), also known as the Bay Highway, is a suburban freeway in the Haifa metropolitan area connecting downtown Haifa with the city's northern exit to the Krayot area.

The 17 km long freeway bypasses the Krayot, providing an alternative route to Highway 4. Also the interchanges connecting to the Carmel Tunnels and Highway 75 were improved as part of the project.

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 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 for several decades. Shapir Marine and Civil Engineering Ltd. won the tender to construct this part of the highway, work on which commenced in 2010. The entire cost of this segment is estimated at NIS 1.9 billion (approximately US$500 million) and is managed by the National Roads Authority. Other works under way in the vicinity of the highway include the construction of connections from the highway to the Carmel Tunnels and Highway 75 and improvements to Highway 4 from the Karey Na'aman interchange to just south of Acre. The southern part of the Krayot Bypass, from Haifa to the Bialik Interchange was completed mid-September, 2012, ahead of schedule.^[2] The last section leading to Karei Na'aman Interchange was completed in March, 2013.^[3] A direct connection between the highway and the Carmel Tunnels is scheduled for completion by March 2014.^[4]

Interchanges

km	Name	Type	Meaning	Location	Road(s) Crossed
0	מחלף חירם (Hiram Interchange)		Named after King Hiram	Downtown Haifa	Highway 4 (Hativat Golani Road)
1.2				Port of Haifa, Hof Shemen Industrial Zone	Ophir St., HaMelacha St., Salman Road
2	מחלף חוף שמן (Hof Shemen Interchage)		Oil Beach	Port of Haifa, Hof Shemen Industrial Zone	Heletz St., Julius Simon Road, Highway 4 (Yisrael bar Yehuda Road)
3.1	מחלף קישון (Kishon Interchange)		Named after Kishon River	Haifa	Highway 75
4.1	מחלף ידין (Yadin Interchange)		Named after Yigael Yadin	East Haifa	Yigael Yadin Road., (u.c.) to Carmel Tunnels
5	מחלף ההסתדרות (Ha'Histadrut Interchange)		Named after Histadrut labor federation	East Haifa	Highway 4 (HaHistadrut Blvd.)
6	מחלף אתא דרום (Atta Darom Interchange)		Named after location Atta South	Kiryat Nahum Industrial Zone, Kiryat Atta	Haluzey Ha'Taasia St., Haifa Road
7.5	מחלף אתא צפון (Atta Tzafon Interchange)		Named after location Atta North	Kiryat Haim, Kiryat Bialik, Kfar Bialik, Kiryat Atta,	Route 781 (Bialik St.)
11.5	מחלף ביאליק (Bialik Interchange)		Named after Hayim Nahman Bialik	Kiryat Bialik,(north) Tsur Shalom Cemetery	Highway 79
17	מחלף כרי נעמן (Karei Na'aman Interchange)		Named after Karei Na'aman Nature Reserve	Kfar Masaryk	Highway 4

External links

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

References

Coordinates: 32°48′02″N 35°02′42″E / 32.80056°N 35.04500°E / 32.80056; 35.04500