Public Transportation

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:

Karmiel has 4 bus lines that cover all of the neighborhoods pretty well as well as several taxi services.  In addition to the usual busses to the north and center of the country, there are shared taxis (sheruts) that travel to Haifa and points between 7 days/wk.  This means you can get to the train station in Akko in about 25 minutes.  From Akko, train travel to Tel Aviv takes about 2 hrs and to the airport, about 2.5 hrs.  Sr. Citizens pay half price on all busses and trains.  According to an announcement made by the deputy mayor a few months ago, much of the infrastructure construction on a new rail line linking Karmiel to the existing system is completed  and is supposed to complete in about 5 years.  As of this writing (February 2011), there is no car rental office in Karmiel.