Roads

Petah Tikva is enclosed by four highways - Geha Highway

Highway 4 (Israel)

Highway 4 is an Israeli highway that runs along Israel's entire coastal plain of the Mediterranean Sea, its route in the north runs from the Rosh HaNikra border crossing with Lebanon until the Erez Border Crossing with the Gaza Strip...

, Highway 5

Highway 5 (Israel)

Highway 5, or the Trans-Samaria Highway , is one of Israel's main highways, connecting the Mediterranean coast immediately north of Tel Aviv with the central Sharon plain and eastwards to Ariel and other Israeli settlements in the northern West Bank, known under the biblical name Samaria.The name...

, Highway 40

Highway 40 (Israel)

Highway 40 is a north-south intercity road in Israel. At 302 km long, it is the second longest highway in Israel, after Highway 90. The highway runs from Kfar Sava in the center of Israel to the Arabah in the south, serving as a main connection between central Israel and Be'er Sheva.-Route...

 and Maccabit Road

Route 471 (Israel)

Route 471 , commonly called Maccabit Road, is a suburban expressway in the center of the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area in Israel. The expressway connects Highway 4 in the west with Route 444 in the east...

 (Highway 471, which to opened in November 2007). Highways 4 and 5 are freeways within Petah Tikva. Road 483 connects Petah Tikva and nearby Rosh HaAyin

Rosh HaAyin

Rosh HaAyin is a city in the Center District of Israel. To the west of Rosh HaAyin is the fortress of Antipatris and the source of the Yarkon River. To the southeast is the fortress of Migdal Afek...

, and Road 4713 connects it with Kfar Sirkin

Kfar Sirkin

Kfar Sirkin or Kefar Syrkin is a moshav in Israel within the municipal jurisdiction of the Drom HaSharon Regional Council near the city of Petah Tikva. Founded in 1933, it was named after the famous Zionist Nachman Syrkin....

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Another major road and perhaps the main transportation artery of the city is Jabotinsky Road (Road 481), which connects Petah Tikva with Bnei Brak, Ramat Gan and Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...

. It is one of the busiest roads in Israel and the Tel Aviv Subway

Tel Aviv Subway

The Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area Mass-Transit System is a long planned mass transit system for the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. The system will include different types of rapid transit like light rail , bus and more....

 is expected to go through its length.

Railways

Petah Tikva has two railway stations - the Segula station

Petah Tikva Segula Railway Station

The Petah Tikva Segula Railway Station is a suburban passenger railway station in Israel, operated by Israel Railways.It is located in northeast Petah Tikva at the Yarkonim shopping district across the Segula industrial zone and is separated from the rest of the city....

, which is located near the Yarkon Interchange and is separated from the rest of the city, and the Kiryat Aryeh station. Both stations are near industrial zones and mainly serve commuters from other towns who work in Petah Tikva, not Petah Tikva's own population.

A railway station existed in a more central area in Petah Tikva in the past, on the former Tel Aviv–Petah Tikva line. Citing the success of the Be'er Sheva Center Railway Station

Be'er Sheva Center Railway Station

Be'er Sheva Center Railway Station is an Israel Railways terminal in Be'er Sheva on the main intercity line from Nahariya to Be'er Sheva. The station is located in Yitzhak Ben Zvi St. near the Be'er Sheva central bus station and HaNegev Mall....

 spur, a plan for a train station near the central bus station of Petah Tikva was included in the Israel Railways secondary expansion plan (post-2013).

Light Rail

The red line

Red Line (Tel Aviv Light Rail)

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 of the Tel Aviv Light Rail will pass through Petah Tikva as a ground-level light rail system, expected to be operational in 2014. It is planned to go through Jabotinsky and Orlov streets and works to expand the streets and create public transportation lanes started in 2005, and 2009 work on the first station of the light rail next to the Beilinson Hospital are in progress.

The depot of the The red line

Red Line (Tel Aviv Light Rail)

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 will also be located in Petah Tikva next to Kiryat Aryeh business park.

Buses

A number of bus companies operate throughout the city, with numerous terminals. The Egged Bus Cooperative

Egged Bus Cooperative

Egged Israel Transport Cooperative Society Ltd , a cooperative owned by its members is the largest transit bus company in Israel. It provides about 55 % of public transport services throughout the country, employs 6,227 workers and has 2,861 buses for more than 928 service routes and 3,103...

 handles inter-city lines, the Dan Bus Company

Dan Bus Company

Dan Bus Company is an Israeli bus company based in Tel Aviv. It operates local bus service in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area as well as some intercity bus services between the Gush Dan area and nearby regions such as Samaria, and a connection between Bne Brak and Jerusalem. Dan operates 1,200...

 is responsible for lines from Petah Tikva to other cities in Gush Dan

Gush Dan

The Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area , or Gush Dan , is a metropolitan area including areas from both the Tel Aviv and the Central Districts of Israel. The area is closely linked to the city of Tel Aviv through social, economic, and cultural ties. It is located along the Israeli Mediterranean coastline...

 as well as Judea and Samaria (but not lines within Petah Tikva), while Kavim

Kavim

Kavim is an Israeli bus company. It was founded in 2000 and provided lines in the eastern Gush Dan region - the towns/cities Kiryat Ono, Petah Tikva, Or Yehuda, Giv'atayim and others. In February 2005, Kavim expanded to the north, where it started providing bus lines in Afula, Bet She'an and the...

 handles lines within the city.

The transfer of internal lines from Dan to Kavim was made in April 2006 amid severe opposition from Petah Tikva's residents.

The main bus terminal in Petah Tikva is the central bus station. Other terminals include the Sirkin Terminal, Beit Rivka, the Kaplan/Beilinson Terminal and the nearby mall, which is also a large transport hub. The main junctions of the city which serve as major inter-city bus stops are Segula Junction (roads 40/481), Ganim Junction (roads 40/483), Sirkin Junction (roads 40/4713) and Geha Interchange (roads 4/481).

In August 2009, Petah Tikva became the first city in Israel to deploy electronic signs on regular bus stations throughout the city. Six such stations were set up in the pilot run, and 50 are slated eventually.

Petah Tikva Central Bus Station

The Petah Tikva Central Bus Station, abbr. Petah Tikva CBS, is the main bus station in Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva known as Em HaMoshavot , is a city in the Center District of Israel, east of Tel Aviv.According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, at the end of 2009, the city's population stood at 209,600. The population density is approximately...

, Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

. It serves Afikim

Afikim (company)

Afikim is an Israeli bus company that operates on routes connecting the Gush Dan and Sharon plain regions with the western Samaria region of the West Bank. The company was founded in 2008 and is co-owned by three other transportation companies. It began operating on 1 September 2009 and now...

, Dan

Dan Bus Company

Dan Bus Company is an Israeli bus company based in Tel Aviv. It operates local bus service in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area as well as some intercity bus services between the Gush Dan area and nearby regions such as Samaria, and a connection between Bne Brak and Jerusalem. Dan operates 1,200...

, Egged

Egged Bus Cooperative

Egged Israel Transport Cooperative Society Ltd , a cooperative owned by its members is the largest transit bus company in Israel. It provides about 55 % of public transport services throughout the country, employs 6,227 workers and has 2,861 buses for more than 928 service routes and 3,103...

 and Kavim

Kavim

Kavim is an Israeli bus company. It was founded in 2000 and provided lines in the eastern Gush Dan region - the towns/cities Kiryat Ono, Petah Tikva, Or Yehuda, Giv'atayim and others. In February 2005, Kavim expanded to the north, where it started providing bus lines in Afula, Bet She'an and the...

 buses. It is officially located on Zeev Orlov St. 64 on one side and Zeev Orlov St. 75 on the other.

The Petah Tikva Central Bus Station has four platforms, each of which contains a multitude of small bus stations - two platforms are in an enclosed area to the side of Orlov St. and serve Dan and Kavim buses, while the other two platforms are on Orlov Street itself and serve Egged buses.

According to Petah Tikva's municipality, there are plans to renovate and rebuild the central bus station, due to its worsening conditions (a basic analysis gave it a 4/10). The station is considered polluted, and its passengers are exposed to rainfall and other weather conditions.

The following buses stop at the Petah Tikva Central Bus Station. Many of their routes, especially Egged's, do not originate in the station but come from Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...

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Notes:

• Most routes go both ways, but not all.
• Some routes are tagged with alternate route - routes which are normally different, and don't stop at the Petah Tikva CBS, but do on certain occasions.

Egged

Line	Route
396	Petah Tikva CBS - Eilat CBS (summer only)
159	Petah Tikva CBS - Camp Tzrifin Tzrifin Tzrifin is an area in Gush Dan in central Israel, located on the eastern side of Rishon LeZion and including parts of Be'er Ya'akov. The area proper is defined as an 'area without jurisdiction' between the two cities....  (mornings only)
164	Petah Tikva CBS - Rehovot Rehovot Rehovot is a city in the Center District of Israel, about south of Tel Aviv. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , at the end of 2009 the city had a total population of 112,700. Rehovot's official website estimates the population at 114,000.Rehovot was built on the site of Doron,...  CBS
249	Petah Tikva CBS - Rehovot CBS
423	Petah Tikva CBS - Jerusalem CBS Jerusalem Central Bus Station The Jerusalem Central Bus Station is the main bus depot in Jerusalem, Israel and one of the busiest bus stations in the country. Located on Jaffa Road near the entrance to the city, it serves Egged, Superbus and Dan intercity bus routes...  (mornings only)
551	Petah Tikva CBS - Herzliya Herzliya Herzliya is a city in the central coast of Israel, at the western part of the Tel Aviv District. It has a population of 87,000 residents. Named after Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, Herzliya covers an area of 26 km²...  CBS
561	Tel Aviv CBS Tel Aviv Central Bus Station Tel Aviv Central Bus Station, known as the New Central Bus Station , is the main bus station of Tel Aviv, Israel...  - Kefar Sava CBS
571	Tel Aviv CBS - Kefar Sava CBS
627	Tzoran - Tel Aviv CBS
641	Tel Aviv CBS - Netanya Netanya Netanya is a city in the Northern Centre District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is located north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa between the 'Poleg' stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the 'Avichail' stream in the north.Its of beaches have made the...  CBS
642	Tel Aviv CBS - Netanya CBS (evenings only)
823	Tel Aviv CBS - Nazareth Illit Nazareth Illit Nazareth Illit is a city in the North District of Israel. At the end of 2007 it had a population of 40,800.Nazareth Illit was founded in the 1950s. Foundations were laid in 1954 and first residents moved in two years later...
841	Tel Aviv CBS - Kiryat Shmona Kiryat Shmona Kiryat Shmona is a city located in the North District of Israel on the western slopes of the Hula Valley on the Lebanese border. The city was named for the eight people, including Joseph Trumpeldor, who died in 1920 defending Tel Hai....  CBS
921	Tel Aviv CBS - Haifa Hof HaCarmel CBS Haifa Hof HaCarmel Central Bus Station Carmel Beach Central Bus Station is the main bus station in Haifa, Israel, replacing the Haifa Bat Galim Central Bus Station. The former station is now only used to store Egged buses and for Egged office space and innercity buses now only stop there on the road rather than inside on the route...

Afikim

Line	Route
81	Ra'anana Ra'anana Ra'anana is a city in the heart of the southern Sharon Plain of the Central District of Israel with a population of 68,300, . Ra'anana is bordered by Kfar Sava on the east and Herzliya on the southwest...  - Kedumim Kedumim Kedumim , also spelled Qedumim, is an Israeli settlement and a town located in the Samarian hills of the West Bank that was founded during Hanukkah 1975 and now enjoys the municipal status of local council. Founded in 1975 by members of the Gush Emunim settlement movement, its current population is...  Giv'at Shalem neighborhood (alternate route)
89	Immanuel Immanuel (town) Immanuel is an Israeli settlement and a town with local council status in the West Bank. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics ,...  - Bnei Brak
181	Kedumim - Petah Tikva CBS
185	Petah Tikva CBS - Etz Efraim Etz Efraim Etz Efraim is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located between Ariel and Rosh HaAyin, it falls under the jurisdiction of Shomron Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 679....
186	Ariel Ariel (city) Ariel is an Israeli settlement and a city in the West Bank. Ariel was established in 1978. Its population at the end of 2009 was 17,600, including 7,000 immigrants who came to Israel after 1990. It is the fourth largest Jewish settlement city in the West Bank., after Modi'in Illit, Beitar Illit,...  - Tel Aviv CBS
189	Immanuel - Bnei Brak
386	Petah Tikva CBS - Ariel University Center of Samaria (alternate route)

Dan

Line	Route
49	Petah Tikva CBS - Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:...
50	Petah Tikva CBS - Tel Aviv CBS (alternate route)
51	Petah Tikva CBS - Tel Aviv CBS
66	Petah Tikva CBS - Tel Aviv Carmelit Station

Kavim

Line	Route
7	Rosh HaAyin Cemetery Terminal - Petah Tikva Petah Tikva Petah Tikva known as Em HaMoshavot , is a city in the Center District of Israel, east of Tel Aviv.According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, at the end of 2009, the city's population stood at 209,600. The population density is approximately...  Basel Mall
17	Petah Tikva CBS - Rosh HaAyin Rosh HaAyin Rosh HaAyin is a city in the Center District of Israel. To the west of Rosh HaAyin is the fortress of Antipatris and the source of the Yarkon River. To the southeast is the fortress of Migdal Afek...  Cemetery Terminal
21	Petah Tikva CBS - Petah Tikva CBS
23	Petah Tikva CBS - Petah Tikva Beit Rivka
24	Petah Tikva CBS - Petah Tikva Beit Rivka
25	Petah Tikva CBS - Petah Tikva CBS
30	Petah Tikva CBS - Beilinson Hospital
31	Petah Tikva CBS - Petah Tikva CBS
41	Petah Tikva CBS - Kiryat Matalon neighborhood
45	Petah Tikva CBS - Petah Tikva Electricity Company
53	Petah Tikva CBS - Petah Tikva CBS
67	Petah Tikva CBS - Petah Tikva Sgula Train Station
76	Petah Tikva CBS - Or Yehuda Or Yehuda Or Yehuda is a city in the Tel Aviv District in Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , the city had a population of 32,200 at the end of 2007.-History:Or Yehuda is located where the biblical city of Kefar Ono used to stand....
78	Petah Tikva CBS - Or Yehuda
83	Petah Tikva CBS - Sdei Hemed Sdei Hemed Sdei Hemed is a moshav in central Israel. Located near Kfar Sava and covering 2,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 773....
84	Petah Tikva CBS - Mazor Mazor Mazor is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain around three kilometres south-east of Petah Tikva and covering 2,300 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Modi'in Regional Council. In 2007, it had a population of 1,100....
85	Petah Tikva CBS - Shoham Shoham Shoham is a town in the Center District of Israel.According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , Shoham's population in the end of 2007 was 19,400. Its jurisdiction is 5,889 dunams ....
87	Petah Tikva CBS - Tel HaShomer Tel HaShomer Tel HaShomer is a district in Gush Dan in central Israel. It is located east of Ramat Gan, and is bordered to the north by Kiryat Ono, to the east by Yehud, and to the south by Or Yehuda...
89	Petah Tikva CBS - Nahshonim Nahshonim Nahshonim is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located in the south of the Sharon plain near Rosh HaAyin, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 310....
91	Petah Tikva CBS - Kfar Sirkin Kfar Sirkin Kfar Sirkin or Kefar Syrkin is a moshav in Israel within the municipal jurisdiction of the Drom HaSharon Regional Council near the city of Petah Tikva. Founded in 1933, it was named after the famous Zionist Nachman Syrkin....
99	Petah Tikva CBS - Petah Tikva CBS