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The Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority (PRHTA) —Spanish: Autoridad de Carreteras y Transportación (ACT)— is the government-owned corporation of Puerto Rico charged with constructing, operating, and maintaining roads, bridges, avenues, highways, tunnels, public parkings, tolls, and other transit facilities in Puerto Rico.
The highway system in Puerto Rico is composed of approximately 14,400 kilometers (8,900 mi) [1] of roads in Puerto Rico, maintained by the Puerto Rico Department of Transportation and Public Works (Spanish: Departmento de Transportación y Obras Públicas) or DTOP.
It is developed by the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority (PRHTA) "in substantial conformance to" the national MUTCD developed by the Federal Highway Administration. The first edition of the Manual de Rotulación para las Vías Públicas de Puerto Rico was published in 1979.
The skyline of Isla Verde, near Puerto Rico's international airport Highways in Puerto Rico constructed by Spain by 1898. By the 16th century there was a rough road called Camino de Puerto Rico connecting San Germán (which was located near the mouth of the Añasco River) to other areas of Puerto Rico, including San Sebastián, Arecibo, Toa Alta, and Caparra.
However, when Puerto Rico changed its mostly agricultural economy to an industrialized one, and the U.S. and Puerto Rican governments started investing heavily in interstate highways and freeways, the railroad business soon collapsed. Passenger travel ceased in 1953, while the commercial train system (mostly for the sugar cane industry ...
Carlos M. Contreras Aponte is a Puerto Rican civil engineer. He is the Secretary of Transportation and Public Works of Puerto Rico as well as the executive director of the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority. Contreras Aponte is the first blind person to lead the Department of Transportation. [1] [2] [3]
The Department of Transportation and Public Works (DTOP; Spanish: Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas) is the Executive Department of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico that regulates transportation and public works in Puerto Rico. [1] [2] The agency's headquarters are located in San Juan. [3]
Puerto Rico Highway 52 (PR-52), a major toll road in Puerto Rico, is also known as Autopista Luis A. Ferré. It was formerly called Expreso Las Américas. It runs from PR-1 in southwest Río Piedras and heads south until it intersects with highway PR-2 in Ponce. [3] At its north end, the short PR-18 continues north from PR-52 towards San Juan.