Route 386 (Israel)

Route 386
386 כביש
Route information
Length: 23 km (14 mi)
Major junctions
north end: Tzur Hadassah Junction
  Nes Harim Junction
Kerem Junction
Holland Square
Molikovsky Square
Denia Square
Haft Square
south end: Junction at Shazar Blvd
Highway system

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Route 386 is a road in Israel that runs from Tzur Hadassah to Jerusalem.

Route

The route begins as a two-lane undivided road in the Judean Mountains at 730 meters above sea level at Tzur Hadassah Junction with Route 375.[1] It travels west-northwest for 2 km. passing Moshav Bar Giora and Nes Harim Junction with Road 3866 where it turns eastward for 1.2 km. and negotiates a hairpin turn. The road then begins a long winding descent, first west, then north, then east, skirting around the west side of the Har Giora Nature Reserve offering scenic views as it descends into the Sorek Valley. At its lowest point of 550 meters, the road passes Jerusalem's largest sewage treatment facility (Sorek).

It then begins a slow northeasterly ascent as it passes Jerusalem's main electrical substation (Sapir Station) and the Sataf Spring Nature Reserve . Turning more easterly, it enters Jerusalem just before passing below Hadassah Hospital and intersects with Route 395 at Kerem Junction. It continues its ascent via Ein Kerem Street through the neighborhood of Ein Kerem travelling southeast, then north, then east until Holland Square adjacent to the Bayit VeGan neighborhood. From this point, Route 386 becomes a boulevard with traffic light controlled intersections.

The road continues northeasterly as Sderot Herzl (Herzl Boulevard), also known as Tzir Herzl (Herzl Axis), the major north-south route on the west side of the city.[2] Along this portion of the route, tracks were laid for the Jerusalem Light Rail, which began operation in August, 2011. The road passes Yad Vashem, the Mount Herzl National Cemetery and Sha'arei Tzedek Medical Center.[3] Between Molikovsky Square at Shmuel Beyth Street and Haft Square at HeHalutz Street, northbound traffic may continue through Beit HaKerem along Herzl Boulevard. Southbound traffic, however, is shunted 0.2 km. west along the parallel Mordechai Ish Shalom Street due to space limitations created by the Light Rail on Herzl.

After Haft Square, the road travels between the neighborhoods of Kiryat Moshe and Kiryat HaLeom, passing nearby the Kiryat Moshe Interchange of Highway 50 (Begin Expressway). It ends at 800 meters above sea level at Shazar Boulevard at the main western entrance to Jerusalem at the base of the Jerusalem Chords Bridge and the Binyanei HaUma Convention Center.

Junctions

km Name Type Meaning Location Road(s) Crossed
0 צומת צור הדסה
(Tzur Hadassah Junction)		 Rock of Hadassah Tzur Hadassah,
Mevo Beitar,
Mount Kitron		 Route 375
1.4 Fire Station entrance road
2 צומת בר גיורה
(Bar Giora Junction)		 named after
Simon bar Giora		 Bar Giora entrance road
2.2 צומת נס הרים
(Nes Harim Junction)		 Mountain Banner Nes Harim Road 3866
3.4 (hairpin turn)
7 (narrow bridge
over rail line)		 Tel Aviv - Jerusalem
Rail Line
9.1 Sorek
Water Purification Plant		 entrance road
10 (narrow bridge
over stream)		 Sorek Stream
10.1 JNF Candada Forest
in the Jerusalem Hills		 entrance road
11.5 Sapir
electrical substation		 entrance road
13.2 Sataf Spring
Nature Reserve		 entrance road
14.5 ↓Jerusalem Municipal Boundary↓
15.6 Hadassah Hospital,
Even Sapir		 Route 396
(Kalman Yaakov Mann St.)
16.2 צומת כרם
(Kerem Junction)		 vineyard Route 395
Ein Kerem Street
16.9 Ein Kerem Emek HaTeimanim St.
17.3 כיכר קסטל
(Kastel Square)		 castle Ein Kerem HaHadasim St.
Ha'Ilanot Rd.
17.4 כיכר עין כרם
(Ein Kerem Square)		 spring of the vineyard Ein Kerem HaAhayot Rd.
HaHoma Lane
17.5 Ein Kerem HaMa'ayan St.
HaSha'ar Alley
17.55 Ein Kerem HaOren St.
17.6 Ein Kerem HaOrev Alley
17.7 Ein Kerem Ma'ale HaBustan
17.8 Ein Kerem HaYekev Alley
17.9 Ein Kerem Karmit Rd.
18.05 Ein Kerem HaHoma Lane
18.6 Ein Kerem Shaul Barkali St.
19.7 Jerusalem Light Rail
Park and ride Facility		 entrance
Herzl Boulevard
20 כיכר הולנד
(Holland Square)		 Yad VaShem,
Bayit VeGan,
Jerusalem Light Rail Station		 HaZikaron St.,
HaPisga St.,
Kiryat HaYovel St.
20.2 Bayit VeGan Bayit VeGan St.,
HaRav Uziel St.
20.4 Har Herzl entrance road
20.6 כיכר מיליקובסקי
(Mileikowsky Square)		 named after
Nathan Mileikowsky 		Beit HaKerem,
Yefeh Nof,
Sha'arei Tzedek,
Yad Sarah		 Shmuel Beyth St.,
Yefeh Nof St.
to Mordechai Ish-Shalom Rd.
20.8 (pedestrian crossing) Beit HaKerem,
Yefeh Nof,
Jerusalem Light Rail Station
20.9 Beit HaKerem,
Yefeh Nof		 Aharonov St.
21.1 Beit HaKerem,
Yefeh Nof		 HaMeyasdim St.,
HaTomer St.
21.2 כיכר דניה
(Denia Square)		 named to honor the
Danish resistance movement		 Beit HaKerem,
Yefeh Nof,
Jerusalem Light Rail Station		 HaArazim St.,
Beit HaKerem St.
21.6 (pedestrian crossing) Beit HaKerem,
Yefeh Nof,
Jerusalem Light Rail Station
21.8 כיכר האפט
(Haft Square)		 named after
Avraham Haft		 Beit HaKerem,
Yefeh Nof,
Kiryat Moshe		 Yehoshua Farbstein St.
(to Mordechai Ish Shalom Rd.),
HeHalutz St.,
Beit HaKerem St.
22.1 Kiryat Moshe,
Kiryat HaLeom		 Wolfson Blvd.,
Baron Hirsch St.
22.3 (southbound only) Kiryat Moshe light rail crossing
22.5 Kiryat Moshe,
Kiryat HaLeom		 Kiryat Moshe St.,
Rabin Blvd.
to Highway 50
22.7 Kiryat Moshe,
Rova Mevo Ha'ir,
Jerusalem Light Rail Station		 HaRav Tzvi Yehuda St.
22.9 Givat Shaul,
Romema,
Rova Mevo Ha'ir,
Strings Bridge		 Shazar Blvd.

References

  1. ↑ Shai Mahelel, YnetNews (2005-11-10). "Hiking in Israel". Daily Jews. Retrieved 2013-03-13.
  2. ↑ Fodor's (1999). Fodor's Israel (7th ed.). Fodor's Travel. p. 548. ISBN 9781400008988.
  3. ↑ Semsek, Hans-Günter; Verlag, Nelles; Pfaffenbach, Carmella (1996). Israel. Nelles Verlag GmbH. p. 256. ISBN 9783886184125.

Coordinates: 31°46′17.80″N 35°09′06.20″E / 31.7716111°N 35.1517222°E / 31.7716111; 35.1517222

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