Puerto Rico Highway 503
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.svg.png) Map of Puerto Rico road PR-503 within the Municipality of Ponce in relation to the other major roads in the municipality | ||||
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| Length | 21.8 km[1] (13.5 mi) | |||
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| North end | Barrio Consejo, Utuado | |||
| South end | Barrio Tercero, Ponce | |||
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Puerto Rico Highway 503, also called Carretera Tibes (Road to Tibes),[2] is a tertiary[3] state[4] road that connects Barrio Consejo, in the southwestern part of the municipality of Utuado, to Barrio Tercero in the city of Ponce, at Museo de la Historia de Ponce, one block east of the center of the city at Plaza Las Delicias..
Course of the road
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The road's northern terminus is at its intersection with Puerto Rico Highway 143 in Utuado's barrio Consejo, about 1/4 mile north of Utuado's borderline with the municipality of Adjuntas. The road runs in a southerly fashion from its northern terminus at Barrio Consejo, Utuado, through barrio Portugues of the municipality of Adjuntas, and then enters the municipality of Ponce, running through barrios Guaraguao, San Patricio, and Tibes. Starting in 2008, the flow of this road through Barrio Tibes was interrupted by the construction of the Rio Portugues river dam. As a result, there is now a permanent 3-mile stretch of this road that no longer exists. The road picks up again at the southern end of the Rio Portugues river dam, continuing in its southerly run through the rest of barrio Tibes and then through barrios Portugués Rural, and Portugués Urbano of the municipality of Ponce, before reaching barrio Sexto (Cantera) in the city of Ponce. The road then follows the course of Calle Mayor Cantera street in Ponce until it comes to its southern terminus at Calle Mayor street's intersection with Calle Isabel, (Calle Isabel is signed as PR-1).
Portugues dam
PR-503 used to be a single stretch country road from Ponce to Utuado until the late 2000s when construction of the Portugués Dam changed that.[5] In the mid 2010s a segment of this roadway was obliterated by the construction of the Portugues River reservoir, which now sits between the northern section of the road and the southern segment, disrupting the continuity of the road, but providing two approaches to the Dam and access to it from both the north and the south.
Road renamed
On 12 July 2011, Governor Luis Fortuño signed Law #130-2011 (House Bill 2885) naming this road as the David Medina-Feliciano Highway in honor of the costumbrista painter from Ponce.[6]
References
- ↑ Guía de Carreteras Principales, Expresos y Autopistas. Autoridad de Carreteras y Transportacion (ACT). Government of Puerto Rico. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2010.
- ↑ Acme Map for the Barrio Portugues area. ACME Mapper 2.1. ACME Labs. Accessed 3 February 2018.
- ↑ Guía de Carreteras Principales, Expresos y Autopistas. (In Spanish) Puerto Rico Autoridad de Carreteras y Transportacion (ACT).
- ↑ ¿Una avenida o zona de combate? Primera Hora. 19 June 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
- ↑ An ACT to designate PR Road 503, which extends from Ponce to Adjuntas as the David Medina-Feliciano Road. H.B. 2885. Oficina de Servicios Legislativos de Puerto Rico. Gobierno de Puerto Rico. Approved 12 July 2011. Published (English version) 30 September 2014. Accessed 8 April 2016.
- ↑ An ACT to designate PR Road 503, which extends from Ponce to Adjuntas as the Davod Medina-Feliciano Road."" H.B. 2885. Oficina de Servicios Legislativos de Puerto Rico. Gobierno de Puerto Rico. Approved 12 July 2011. Published (English version) 30 September 2014. Accessed 8 April 2016.