Puerto Rico Highway 23
Highway 23 | ||||
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| Ruta 23 (Spanish) | ||||
| Avenida Franklin Delano Roosevelt | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by Puerto Rico DTPW | ||||
| Length | 6.4 km[1] (4.0 mi) | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |   PR-2 / PR-165 in Pueblo Viejo | |||
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| East end |  PR-27 in Hato Rey Central–Oriente | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| Territory | Puerto Rico | |||
| Municipalities | Guaynabo, San Juan | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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Puerto Rico Highway 23 (PR-23), also known as Franklin Delano Roosevelt Avenue along its entire length, is a main highway in San Juan, Puerto Rico.[2] It begins in PR-2 in Guaynabo near San Patricio and goes east to the business area Milla de Oro, passing through Plaza Las Américas.[3]
Route description
Running 3.84 miles (6.18 km) from Barbosa Avenue in East Hato Rey to San Patricio Avenue in the middle of the city limits of San Juan and Guaynabo, Roosevelt Avenue is densely developed throughout most of its span, connect most residential areas of San Juan, such as Puerto Nuevo, Hato Rey Este, Barrio Obrero, Floral Park, San Jose, and residential and commercial area of San Patricio in Guaynabo. Most of the known shops in San Juan this along Roosevelt Avenue, between these is Plaza Las Americas, the first American-style shopping center in Puerto Rico, and the largest shopping center in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. Also, Roosevelt Avenue passes just south of the Golden Mile, the main financial district of San Juan. A particular section of the avenue between Hato Rey Puerto Nuevo and West is known as "The center of everything." This section starts from the intersection with Muñoz Rivera Avenue to the bridge is next to the headquarters of the Puerto Rico Police Department.
Roosevelt Avenue closed due to strikes by telephone company employees on August 11, 2011
Transportation
The Roosevelt station of the Tren Urbano is the only station that stops on the avenue. The other station, Hato Rey, stops just a mile ahead due north, at the beginning of the Golden Mile.
The AMA has a bus connection stop at the corner of Roosevelt with Ponce de León Avenue, and Roosevelt with Muñoz Rivera Avenue, just south of the Golden Mile. The AMA route A-3 stops at this connection, and then returns to Roosevelt Avenue from Plaza Las Americas until the end of the avenue. The A-3 does not runs Roosevelt Avenue from the Muñoz Rivera Avenue to the intersection with Plaza Las Americas Avenue, that's the job for the AMA route B-22 who runs all the Roosevelt Avenue. The AMA route M-2 (Metrobus 2) runs Roosevelt Avenue until the intersection of Muñoz Rivera Avenue.
Neighborhoods
- San Patricio Plaza
- Puerto Nuevo
- Plaza
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Milla de Oro (Golden Mile)
- Floral Park
- Martín Peña
- El Vedado
- Fomento
Landmarks
Major intersections
PR-18 near its exits to PR-23
PR-18 at its exits to PR-23
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| Municipality | Location | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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| Guaynabo | Pueblo Viejo | 0.0 | 0.0 |  PR-2 (Expreso John F. Kennedy) / PR-165 north (Avenida El Caño) – Guaynabo, Bayamón, San Juan, Cataño | Western terminus of PR-23 |
| 0.2 | 0.12 | Avenida San Patricio – Guaynabo | |||
| San Juan | Gobernador Piñero | 1.8– 1.9 | 1.1– 1.2 | Avenida José de Diego – Puerto Nuevo | |
| 2.8– 2.9 | 1.7– 1.8 | Avenida Andalucía / Calle 25 NE – Puerto Nuevo | |||
| Hato Rey Norte | 3.5 | 2.2 | Avenida Plaza Las Américas – Plaza Las Américas | ||
| 3.9 | 2.4 |   PR-18 (Expreso Las Américas) – San Juan, Bayamón, Caguas, Ponce | PR-18 exits 3A, 3B and 3C; cloverleaf interchange | ||
| 4.3 | 2.7 |   To PR-41 / Calle César L. González – Hato Rey | |||
| 5.3 | 3.3 |   PR-1 south (Avenida Luis Muñoz Rivera) – Río Piedras | One-way street | ||
| Hato Rey Norte–Hato Rey Central line | 5.4 | 3.4 |  PR-25 north (Avenida Juan Ponce de León) – San Juan, Santurce | One-way street | |
| Hato Rey Central–Oriente line | 6.4 | 4.0 | PR-27 (Avenida José Celso Barbosa) – Santurce, Río Piedras | Eastern terminus of PR-23 | |
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
References
- ^ a b Google (February 28, 2020). "PR-23" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved February 28, 2020.
- ^ Puerto Rico Department of Transportation and Public Works. "Datos de Transito 2000-2009" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on April 1, 2019. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
- ^ National Geographic Maps (2011). Puerto Rico (Map). 1:125,000. Adventure Map (Book 3107). Evergreen, Colorado: National Geographic Maps. ISBN 978-1566955188. OCLC 756511572.
External links
Media related to Puerto Rico Highway 23 at Wikimedia Commons
