South end: Canas Length 1 km | North end: Magueyes | |
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.
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Map of PR-500, Ponce, Puerto Rico
History
The highway is a wide two way road 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 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 Limon 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.