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Founded | 2000 |
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Headquarters | Kfar Saba,Israel |
Service area | Beersheba Tel Aviv Southern District Herzliya Hod HaSharon Ra'anana Kfar Saba Southern HaSharon Netanya Holon Ramat Hasharon Rishon LeZion Kiryat Ono Or Yehuda Yehud-Monosson Ganei Tikva Savyon Giv'at Shmuel Petah Tikva El'ad |
Service type | bus service |
Routes | 96[1] (January 2014) |
Website | metropoline |
Metropoline (Hebrew:מטרופולין) is an Israeli bus company, which provides bus routes fromBeersheba toTel Aviv and other destinations in theSouthern District, Intracity and intercity routes in the Negev region, Southern Sharon region,[a] Ono Valley region[b] andEl'ad.
Metropoline was founded in 2000 byTour Bus and two other transportation companies. In 2002, the company started to operate the intercity routes from BeerSheva to Tel Aviv and other destinations in the Southern District and the intracity service inArad.
In 2010, Metropoline won the tender of Southern HaSharon which contained most intracity and regional service in Ramat HaSharon, Herzliya, Hod HaSharon, Ra'anana and Kfar Saba. In the same year Metropoline started to operate 7 routes that were transferred fromDan, and In early January 2011 Metropoline started to operate the routes that were transferred fromEgged that were included in the tender. In 2012, Metropoline won again the tender of the Negev which contained all routes that Metropoline operated in the Southern District.
In July 2017, Metropoline won the tender of Sharon-Holon Regional which containsNetanya Tel Aviv routes were operated byNateev Express, All Egged bus routes in Southern HaSharon, 4 bus routes ofDan in northern Tel Aviv and 4 bus routes of Egged inHolon.
In July 2018, Metropoline started to operate the Netanya Tel Aviv bus routes that were operated by Nateev Express.
In March 2019 Metropoline started to operate 3 bus routes that were operated by Egged with few additional new bus routes.
In March 2023, Metropoline won the tender of Ono Valley[c]-El'ad Regional which contains all routes that were operated byKavim in the Ono Valley and El'ad, 3 bus routes ofDan in the same region, and all intercity routes from El'ad.[2]
In June 2023, Metropoline began operating intracity and intrercity services inEl'ad, as well as three lines fromBen Gurion Airport to various destinations inGush Dan.
In October 2023, Metropoline began operating 8 lines in the Ono Valley region. Metropoline began operating the rest of the lines in January 2024.