 The Metronit project was developed by Yefe Nof, a company owned by the City of Haifa which is involved in planning public transportation, infrastructure, and other building projects in the Haifa metropolitan area.A tender for its operation was published in September 2009 with the original intention that the system be completed by Fall 2012.On August 4, 2010, it was announced that Dan won the tender to operate the system for 12 years.