With the establishment of the main central road, a new challenge emerged: how to reach it - how to traverse the few kilometers separating the settlements from the highway, often on foot.
For the residents of the earliest settlements, access to the main road was even more difficult than for those in Tel Mond itself. They first had to walk to Tel Mond, and from there continue on a considerable journey to reach the highway. On rare occasions - once or twice a day - a bus would enter the settlements. But this service was far from regular. Only in urgent cases, such as transporting a sick person or ill child, or another pressing matter, would a vehicle be dispatched to the village.
At that time, private vehicles were a rarity. Cars were not parked outside every home as they are today, and even the presence of a tractor was unusual. Typically, there was only one tractor in the possession of the municipal authority of each moshav (cooperative village).
Thus, in the absence of alternatives, transportation was extremely primitive: a cart drawn by a donkey, and in the rarest cases, by a horse.
Source: Tel Mond Bloc Documentation Archives, Esterin Papers, p. 108.