Originally a 2-lane road, Shoman Street has been upgraded as a 4 lane divided boulevard including new sidewalks and infrastructure.

From that point, the road continues as Amihai "Gidi" Paglin Street and Sayeret Duchifat Boulevard as it enters Pisgat Zeev, leading to the Hizma security checkpoint to Route 437 and the Mateh Binyamin Region.

In the late 1990s, the Israel Ministry of Transport planned to construct Highway 45 from Highway 1 near Ben Gurion International Airport through the West Bank passing slightly north of Beit Horon and Beit Ur al-Fauqa to the Atarot Industrial Park in Jerusalem.

[9] The current Route 443, just south of these towns, has put that plan on hold, leaving a small portion of Highway 45 between Givat Zeev and Atarot completed in 2003.

Groups such as Peace Now have stated that the plan designates occupied territory for permanent infrastructure and that the purpose of the road is to consolidate Israeli control over (North) East Jerusalem while disregarding the needs of the residents in Beit Hanina.

The planning committee rejected opposition from Beit Hanina on the grounds that direct access to Begin Boulevard would benefit them and found an engineering solution in the form of a bridge to limit the footprint on West Bank land from the extension to the interchange.