Puerto Rico Highway 500 (PR-500) is a tertiary road in
Ponce,
Puerto Rico. The highway has both of its endpoints, as well as all of its length, entirely within the Ponce city limits. It runs east to west.
Route description
The road has its eastern terminus at
PR-132 (Calle Villa), in
Barrio Canas Urbano, and its western terminus in Barrio Canas. A one-lane dirt road leads to PR-549 from there. The only major road PR-500 intersects is Avenida Baramaya (
PR-9
Puerto Rico Highway 9 (PR-9), also called the ''Anillo de Circunvalación de Ponce'' ), at km 0.8. Prior to that, at km 0.3, PR-500 connects to PR-163 (
Avenida Las Américas). The road ends at km 2.3, where the ''Vertedero Municipal de Ponce'' (Ponce's Municipal Waste Yard) is located. From km 2.3 an unmarked dirt road leads to PR-549, which leads to barrio
Quebrada Limón in the western portion of the municipality of Ponce.
In the 2000s decade, PR-500 was no longer transited by the oversized Ponce Cement (now CEMEX) trucks. Highway 500 is about one and one-half miles long, making one of the shortest highways in Puerto Rico. It is lined by residential areas with a short section lined by the Calle Villa Final industrial park, a light-industry industrial park.
In August 2011, Senator
Larry Seilhamer Rodríguez
Lawrence N. "Larry" Seilhamer Rodríguez (born December 13, 1954) is a Puerto Rican politician who was the Secretary of State of Puerto Rico. He is affiliated with the pro-statehood New Progressive Party (PNP), and was a member of the Senate o ...
presented a bill into the Puerto Rico Senate that would extend PR-500 westward to connect with
PR-2 in the area Guayanilla.
History
The highway is a wide two-way roadway originally designed to accommodate the oversized trucks used by the
Ponce Cement, Inc. plant in barrio
Magueyes, on road
PR-123. The trucks were used to transport
limestone soil from the northern slopes of the western barrio
Canas Canas or Cañas may refer to:
Places
* Canas (Lycia), a town of ancient Lycia, now in Turkey
* Amatlán de Cañas, a municipality in Nayarit, Mexico
* Cañas Canton, in Guanacaste province, Costa Rica
* Cañas, Costa Rica, capital of the Cañas ca ...
hills, near barrio Tallaboa in
Peñuelas to the cement plant on PR-123.
Mounir T. Moussa, George A. Seiglie. ''Revision of Mid-Tertiary Stratigraphy of Southwestern Puerto Rico.'' Bulletin. American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Vol. 54, Issue 10 (October 1970; pp. 1887-1898.) Page 1894.
/ref> The road runs from its eastern terminus at PR-132 (Calle Villa), which is the road leading from Guayanilla to Ponce through Peñuelas, to its western terminus at Barrio Canas where it ends at the Ponce Municipal Waste and Recycling Yard.
Major intersections
See also
* List of highways in Ponce, Puerto Rico
* List of highways numbered 500
The following highways are numbered 500:
Australia
* Great Alpine Road
Canada
* Alberta Highway 500
* Manitoba Provincial Road 500
*Newfoundland and Labrador Route 500
Japan
* Japan National Route 500
South Korea
* Gwangju Ring Expressway
U ...
References
External links
Historia de las Carreteras de Puerto Rico. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
Roads in Porto Rico. By Manuel Victor Domenech, Former Commissioner of the Interior, in ''The Overland Monthly''. Vol 73, No, 4; April, 1919. Page 321. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
Guía de Carreteras Principales, Expresos y Autopistas
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500 500 may refer to:
* 500 (number)
* 500 BC
* AD 500
Buildings and places
* 500 Boylston Street of Boston
* 500 Brickell in Miami
* 500 Capitol Mall in Sacramento
* 500 Fifth Avenue
* 500 Renaissance Center, one of seven buildings in the GM Renai ...
Roads in Ponce, Puerto Rico