Puerto Rico Highway 5
Southern segment
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/PR_secondary_152.svg/30px-PR_secondary_152.svg.png)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/PR_secondary_164.svg/30px-PR_secondary_164.svg.png)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/PR_secondary_148.svg/30px-PR_secondary_148.svg.png)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Ellipse_sign_826.svg/30px-Ellipse_sign_826.svg.png)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Ellipse_sign_828.svg/30px-Ellipse_sign_828.svg.png)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/PR_urban_primary_199.svg/30px-PR_urban_primary_199.svg.png)
PR-174 in Minillas–Bayamón barrio-pueblo
PR-2 in Bayamón barrio-pueblo
PR-29 in Juan Sánchez
PR-6 in Juan Sánchez
PR-28 in Juan Sánchez
PR-22 / PR-869 in Juan Sánchez–Palmas
PR-165 in Palmas
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Puerto Rico Highway 5 (PR-5) is a main highway in the San Juan Metropolitan area which connects the cities of Cataño to Bayamón[3] and is being extended and converted to a tollway (it has a toll plaza[4] in Bayamón near PR-2 and PR-174) to access the municipalities of Naranjito and Comerío. It is a short freeway from south Cataño to the business area in Bayamón. It makes intersections with PR-22, PR-6, PR-2 and PR-199, where it ends at this time. The highway will parallel PR-167 and will contain the new cable-stayed bridge being built between Bayamón and Naranjito. It will probably end in Puerto Rico highway 152 when completed.
Route description
Cataño to Bayamón
PR-5 begins in a dead end in downtown Cataño, on a peninsula overlooking San Juan Bay. It crosses downtown Cataño on an urban street, passing through the main square. Shortly after an intersection with PR-165, it becomes a divided avenue until reaching PR-22 at the Bayamon city limit.[5]
After the PR-22 intersection, it becomes a freeway, paralleling the Metro Urbano bus rapid transit route. After an intersection with PR-29, it becomes an avenue in downtown Bayamon, where the Metro Urbano ends. After the intersection with PR-2, it becomes a tolled freeway until this section ends, becoming the western section of PR-199.
Toa Alta to Naranjito
This section begins at an intersection with PR-167, near the border with Bayamon. This segment passes through the Jesús Izcoa Moure Bridge and is a freeway until the junction with PR-148. It then continues as a non divide highway, and then becomes divided until its end at an intersection with PR-164 and PR-152. This entire segment was originally known as PR-147.
- Jesús Izcoa Moure Bridge near Naranjito
- PR-5 south in Naranjito
Tolls
Location | Toll[6] | Direction | AutoExpreso acceptance | AutoExpreso replenishment (R) lane |
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Bayamón | $0.50 | Two-way | ![]() | ![]() |
Major intersections
- PR-5 south at PR-165 interchange in Cataño
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- PR-8855 west at PR-5 junction in Bayamón
- PR-148 north at PR-5 and PR-826 intersection in Guadiana, Naranjito
Municipality | Location | km[1][2] | mi | Exit | Destinations | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Naranjito | Achiote–Naranjito barrio-pueblo line | 25.7 | 16.0 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Southern terminus of PR-5; southern terminus of PR-164 concurrency | ||
25.5 | 15.8 | ![]() | Northern terminus of PR-164 concurrency | ||||
Naranjito barrio-pueblo | 25.3– 25.2 | 15.7– 15.7 | ![]() ![]() | ||||
Achiote | 24.7 | 15.3 | ![]() | ||||
Guadiana | 23.8– 23.7 | 14.8– 14.7 | ![]() ![]() | Former highway | |||
21.0 | 13.0 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||||
19.0 | 11.8 | — | PR-Camino Hatito – Guadiana | Northbound exit and entrance | |||
Lago La Plata | 19.0– 18.5 | 11.8– 11.5 | Puente Jesús Izcoa Moure | ||||
Toa Alta | Ortíz | 18.3 | 11.4 | — | ![]() ![]() | Incomplete diamond interchange; southbound exit and northbound entrance | |
Toa Alta–Bayamón municipal line | Ortíz–Buena Vista line | 17.0 | 10.6 | — | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Northern terminus of southern segment; all northbound traffic must exit; partial cloverleaf interchange; mainline stub exist for a future extension | |
Temporary gap in PR-5 | |||||||
Bayamón | Cerro Gordo–Minillas line | 11.3 | 7.0 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Southern terminus of northern segment; seagull intersection | ||
Minillas | 10.9 | 6.8 | — | PR-Avenida Magnolia / PR-Avenida Santa Juanita – Bayamón | Diamond interchange | ||
Minillas–Cerro Gordo line | 9.5 | 5.9 | 7 | PR-Avenida Los Millones – Bayamón | Diamond interchange | ||
Minillas | 8.5– 8.4 | 5.3– 5.2 | Bayamón Toll Plaza | ||||
Minillas–Bayamón barrio-pueblo line | 7.9– 7.8 | 4.9– 4.8 | — | ![]() ![]() | Partial cloverleaf interchange | ||
Bayamón barrio-pueblo | 7.5 | 4.7 | ![]() | Single-point urban interchange | |||
7.1 | 4.4 | ![]() ![]() | All turns via Calle Ramón Emeterio Betances | ||||
Juan Sánchez | 6.9 | 4.3 | ![]() ![]() | ||||
6.7 | 4.2 | — | ![]() | Trumpet interchange | |||
6.0 | 3.7 | — | ![]() ![]() | Trumpet interchange | |||
5.3 | 3.3 | — | ![]() | Diamond interchange | |||
Bayamón–Cataño municipal line | Juan Sánchez–Palmas line | 4.2– 4.0 | 2.6– 2.5 | — | ![]() ![]() | Northern terminus of Expreso Río Hondo; southern terminus of Carretera Rafael Torres Ortega; PR-22 exits 9 and 10 | |
Cataño | Palmas | 3.3– 3.2 | 2.1– 2.0 | ![]() | |||
1.6 | 0.99 | ![]() | Northern terminus of Carretera Rafael Torres Ortega; diamond interchange; southern terminus of Avenida José Celso Barbosa | ||||
Cataño barrio-pueblo | 0.8 | 0.50 | ![]() | One-way street | |||
0.4 | 0.25 | ![]() | |||||
0.0 | 0.0 | PR-Calle Canal – Cataño | Northern terminus of PR-5 | ||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi |
See also
Puerto Rico portal
U.S. Roads portal
References
- ^ a b "PR-5 north" (Map). Google Maps. Google. 3 March 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ^ a b "PR-5 south" (Map). Google Maps. Google. 3 March 2020. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ^ Puerto Rico Department of Transportation and Public Works. "Datos de Transito 2000-2009" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
- ^ "KBRA Assigns BBB- Rating to Autopistas Metropolitanas de Puerto Rico, LLC's 6.75% Senior Secured Notes Due 2035". MarketWatch.
- ^ National Geographic Maps (2011). Puerto Rico (Map). 1:125,000. Adventure Map (Book 3107). Evergreen, Colorado: National Geographic Maps. ISBN 978-1566955188. OCLC 756511572.
- ^ "Mapas y Tarifas". Metropistas (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 26 February 2024. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
External links
Media related to Puerto Rico Highway 5 at Wikimedia Commons