Puerto Rico Highway 23

Highway 23
Highway 23
Ruta 23
Avenida Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Route information
	Maintained by Puerto Rico DTPW
Length	6.4 km (4.0 mi)
Major junctions
West end	PR-2 / PR-165 in Pueblo Viejo
	Avenida José de Diego in Gobernador Piñero; PR-18 in Hato Rey Norte; PR-1 in Hato Rey Norte; PR-25 in Hato Rey Norte–Hato Rey Central;
East end	PR-27 in Hato Rey Central–Oriente
Location
Municipalities	Guaynabo, San Juan
Highway system
	Roads in Puerto Rico; List;

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[]

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

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.

Neighborhoods[]

Landmarks[]

Plaza Las Américas
Roosevelt Station
Hiram Bithorn Stadium
Roberto Clemente Coliseum
Triple S Plaza
Puerto Rico Police Department Headquarters
WKAQ-TV
WKAQ-FM

Major intersections[]

Municipality	Location	km^[1]	mi	Destinations	Notes
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
Guaynabo	Pueblo Viejo	0.2	0.12	– Guaynabo
San Juan	Gobernador Piñero	1.8– 1.9	1.1– 1.2	– Puerto Nuevo
	Gobernador Piñero	2.8– 2.9	1.7– 1.8	/ – Puerto Nuevo
	Hato Rey Norte	3.5	2.2	– 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 / – 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 (28 February 2020). "PR-23" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
^ Puerto Rico Department of Transportation and Public Works. "Datos de Transito 2000-2009" (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 April 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

[google-1] Google (28 February 2020). "PR-23" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 28 February 2020.

[DTOP-2] Puerto Rico Department of Transportation and Public Works. "Datos de Transito 2000-2009" (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 April 2019.

[NGAdvMap-3] National Geographic Maps (2011). Puerto Rico (Map). 1:125,000. Adventure Map (Book 3107). Evergreen, Colorado: National Geographic Maps. ISBN 978-1566955188. OCLC 756511572.

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