A government-approved strategic plan for mass transit across the Haifa metropolitan, and the ongoing update to a 2060 vision centered on two metro lines. The original plan established a hierarchical transit network — LRT (Haifa–Nazareth), BRT (Metronit), cable car, and heavy rail — to reach 40% public transit modal share and 1.2 million daily riders by 2040. The current update reframes the challenge: reversing Haifa's demographic and economic decline by building a metro system that can compete directly with Tel Aviv for talent, investment, and residents. Two metro lines connecting the historic city center to the massive bay development (TMA 75 — 490,000 new residents, 520,000 jobs) form the backbone of a system designed to flip the modal split from 64% private car to just 25%. The plan integrates transport with urban renewal and a dual-center economic strategy — drawing on the Bilbao model to transform the metropolitan into a growth engine for the north.