Highway 45 | |
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כביש 45 Kvish Arba'im v'Hameish |
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Route information | |
Length: | 4.7 km (2.9 mi) |
Major junctions | |
West end: | Giv'at Ze'ev Junction |
Atarot Junction Atarot Industrial Park |
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East end: | Junction at Airport Street |
Location | |
Major cities: | Givat Ze'ev, Jerusalem |
Highway system | |
Highways |
Atarot Junction
Highway 45 is the official designation of a 3.3 km stretch of road forming a continuous connection between Route 443 from the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area and Highway 50 (Begin Boulevard) to central Jerusalem and a 1.4 km spur serving the Atarot Industrial Park.
The road begins as a continuation of Route 443 at the traffic-light controlled Giv'at Ze'ev Junction. It runs east-southeast for 3.3 km as a high-speed four lane divided highway. At the traffic-light controlled Atarot Junction it becomes Highway 50 (Begin Boulevard). The officially numbered "45" takes a 90-degree turn. Here, running northeast then east-northeast, it becomes a 2 lane local street running 0.8 km to the Atarot Industrial Zone and the closed entrance to Atarot Airport. After another 0.6 km the road as numbered ends at Airport Street. The road itself then continues an additional 0.6 km to Highway 60 adjacent to the Qalandia security checkpoint. However this last section is no longer officially numbered 45.
In the late 1990s, the Israel Ministry of Transport planned to construct Highway 45 from Highway 1 near Ben Gurion International Airport through the West Bank north of the Modi'im Stream passing slightly north of Beit Horon and Beit Ur al-Fauqa to the Atarot Industrial Park in Jerusalem. The current Route 443 just south of these towns as well as political considerations has made that plan irrelevant, leaving the small portion of Highway 45 between Giv'at Zeev and Atarot completed in 2003. Excavations performed in the 1990s can still be seen just northwest of Givat Ze'ev junction.