Puerto Rico Highway 500
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Puerto Rico Highway 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 south to north.
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
hills, near barrio Tallaboa in Peñuelas to the cement plant. The road intersected Villa street, signed PR-132, which is the road leading from Guayanilla to Ponce through Peñuelas, and PR-123 (old PR-10) which leads from Adjuntas to Ponce.
in the western portion of the municipality of Ponce.
Today PR-500 is 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 Villa Final industrial park, a light-industry industrial park.
In August 2011, Senator Larry Seilhamer Rodríguez
presented a bill into the Puerto Rico Senate that would extend PR-500 westward to connect with PR-2
in the area Guayanilla.
Ponce, Puerto Rico
Ponce is both a city and a municipality in the southern part of Puerto Rico. The city is the seat of the municipal government.The city of Ponce, the fourth most populated in Puerto Rico, and the most populated outside of the San Juan metropolitan area, is named for Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, the...
, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
. The highway has both of its endpoints, as well as all of its length, entirely within the Ponce city limits. It runs south to north.
History
The highway is a wide two way road originally designed to accommodate the oversized trucks used by the Ponce Cement, Inc.Ponce Cement, Inc.
Ponce Cement, Inc. was a cement and limestone manufacturer in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The company was located at the intersection of PR-123 and PR-500, in Barrio Magueyes. It was founded in 1941 by Antonio Ferre Bacallao, a Puerto Rican industrialist of Cuban origin. In 2002, Ponce Cement, Inc...
plant in barrio Magueyes
Magueyes
Magueyes is one of the 31 barrios of the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Together with Cerrillos, Machuelo Arriba, Maragüez, Monte Llano, Portugues, Sabanetas, and Tibes, Magueyes is one of the municipality's eight interior barrios. The name of this barrio is of native Indian...
, on road PR-123. The trucks were used to transport limestone
Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate . Many limestones are composed from skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral or foraminifera....
soil from the northern slopes of the western barrio Canas
Canas (Ponce)
Canas is one of the 31 barrios in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Along with Anón, Coto Laurel, Guaraguao, Quebrada Limón, Real, San Patricio, and Marueño, and the coastal barrio of Capitanejo, Canas is one of the municipality's nine bordering barrios. It borders the municipality of...
hills, near barrio Tallaboa in Peñuelas to the cement plant. The road intersected Villa street, signed PR-132, which is the road leading from Guayanilla to Ponce through Peñuelas, and PR-123 (old PR-10) which leads from Adjuntas to Ponce.
Current course of the road
In addition to intersecting PR-123 and PR-132, PR-500 also intersects PR-163/Las Americas Avenue as well as Baramaya street / PR-9 in its way into barrio Canas. It then becomes PR-549, which leads to barrio Quebrada LimonQuebrada Limón
Quebrada Limón is one of the 31 barrios of the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Along with Anón, Coto Laurel, Guaraguao, Marueño, Real, and San Patricio, and the coastal barrios of Canas and Capitanejo, Quebrada Limón is one of the municipality's nine bordering barrios...
in the western portion of the municipality of Ponce.
Today PR-500 is 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 Villa Final industrial park, a light-industry industrial park.
In August 2011, Senator Larry Seilhamer Rodríguez
Larry Seilhamer Rodríguez
Larry Seilhamer Rodríguez is a Puerto Rican politician member of the Senate of Puerto Rico since January 7, 2009. He is affiliated with the pro-statehood New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico.-Personal life:...
presented a bill into the Puerto Rico Senate that would extend PR-500 westward to connect with PR-2
Puerto Rico Highway 2
Puerto Rico Highway 2, the longest highway in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico at about 156 miles long, connects San Juan to Ponce....
in the area Guayanilla.
See also
- Puerto Rico Highway 1Puerto Rico Highway 1Puerto Rico Highway 1 connects the city of Ponce to San Juan. Leaving Ponce, the road follows somewhat parallel along the southern coast of the island and, at Salinas, it turns north to cut through the Cordillera Central in its approach to San Juan....
- Puerto Rico Highway 10Puerto Rico Highway 10Puerto Rico Highway 10 is a major highway in Puerto Rico. It connects the cities of Ponce in the south and Arecibo to the north; it is also the shortest route between the two cities....
- Puerto Rico Highway 52
- Historia de las Carreteras de Puerto Rico. Retrieved March 11, 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 March 11, 2010..