Puerto Rico Highway 23

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]

Roosevelt Avenue closed due to strikes by telephone company employees on August 11, 2011

Highway 23
Avenida Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Route information
Maintained by Puerto Rico DTPW
Length6.4 km[1] (4.0 mi)
Major junctions
West end PR-2 / PR-165 in Pueblo Viejo
 
East end PR-27 in Hato Rey Central–Oriente
Location
MunicipalitiesGuaynabo, San Juan
Highway system
← PR-22→ PR-24

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.

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.

Towns and neighborhoods

Landmarks

Major intersections
MunicipalityLocationkm[1]miDestinationsNotes
GuaynaboPueblo Viejo0.00.0 PR-2 (Expreso John F. Kennedy) / PR-165 north (Avenida El Caño) – Guaynabo, Bayamón, San Juan, CatañoWestern terminus of PR-23
0.20.12Avenida San Patricio – Guaynabo
San JuanGobernador Piñero1.8–
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 Norte3.52.2Avenida Plaza Las Américas – Plaza Las Américas
3.92.4 PR-18 (Expreso Las Américas) – San Juan, Bayamón, Caguas, PoncePR-18 exits 3A, 3B and 3C; cloverleaf interchange
4.32.7 To PR-41 / Calle César L. González – Hato Rey
5.33.3 PR-1 south (Avenida Luis Muñoz Rivera) – Río PiedrasOne-way street
Hato Rey Norte–Hato Rey Central line5.43.4 PR-25 north (Avenida Juan Ponce de León) – San Juan, SanturceOne-way street
Hato Rey Central–Oriente line6.44.0 PR-27 (Avenida José Celso Barbosa) – Santurce, Río PiedrasEastern terminus of PR-23
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

References
  1. Google (28 February 2020). "PR-23" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  2. Puerto Rico Department of Transportation and Public Works. "Datos de Transito 2000-2009" (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  3. National Geographic Maps (2011). Puerto Rico (Map). 1:125,000. Adventure Map. Evergreen, CO: National Geographic Maps. ISBN 978-1566955188. OCLC 756511572.
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