Route 386 (Israel)

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

Route 386
כביש 386‎
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
Roads in Israel Highways

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.

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 Canada 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.