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. From there it continues northwards as a bypass of the Krayot, providing an alternative route to Highway 4.

Highway 22
נתיבי המפרץ Netivey Ha'Mifratz
Bay Highway
Route information
Length	17 km (11 mi)
Major junctions
South end	Haifa (Hiram Interchange)
	Hiram Interchange Ha'Histadrut Interchange Karey Na'aman Interchange
North end	Kfar Masarik (Karey Na'aman Interchange)
Location
Major cities	Haifa, Kiryat Atta, Kiryat Bialik, Akko
Highway system
Roads in Israel Highways

The highway is divided into two parts:

• The Kishon Road is a 5 km long urban section from the Hiram interchange in downtown Haifa to the Yigael Yadin interchange. The first stage of the Kishon Road was built by Haifa's municipal Yefe Nof company and opened in 2005. The 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 in 2010 dollars) and was managed by the National Roads Authority. Other works in the vicinity of the highway included 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.[1] A direct connection between the highway and the Carmel Tunnels (Highway 23) was completed in March 2014.

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 Interchange)		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, Highway 23
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 website (in Hebrew)
• Project information from Yafe Nof

References

1. Etti Dor (2010-01-12). "Mevo Carmel Interchange Opens Today" (in Hebrew). mynet. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
2. Daniel Schmiel (2012-09-12). "Krayot Bypass Highway - Haifa to Acco in only 10 minutes" (in Hebrew). The Marker (Haaretz). Retrieved 2012-09-12.