Florida State Road 5
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| State Road 5 |
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| Length: | 6.78 mi[1] (10.91 km) (continues south with US 1 and north with US 1 and US 17) |
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| Formed: | 1945 renumbering (definition) | ||||||||
| South end: |  US 1 in Lantana |
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| North end: | US 1 in West Palm Beach |
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State Road 5 (SR 5) is a mostly-unsigned state highway in the U.S. state of Florida. It is mainly signed as US 1 from its south end in Key West to Jacksonville, and US 17 from Jacksonville to the Georgia state line (at the St. Marys River). (US 1 is SR 15 northwest from Jacksonville.)
However, from northern Lantana through Lake Worth to Belvedere Road in West Palm Beach, SR 5 is separate from US 1, which runs to the west on the older but wider Dixie Highway. State Road 5 uses the parallel Olive Avenue until Belvedere Road, where it turns west one block to rejoin Dixie Highway and US 1. Until around 2004, Olive Avenue carried northbound US 1 (SR 5) north from Belvedere Road. Olive Avenue is now a two-way city street from Belvedere Road north to SR 704 (where the one-way pair now begins), and so both directions of SR 5 now go west one block on Belvedere Road to Dixie Highway.[1][2][3]
[edit] References
- ^ a b FDOT GIS data
- ^ City of West Palm Beach: traffic reports
- ^ Florida Department of Transportation, District Four Construction - Palm Beach County
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