Florida State Road 842
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An eight-mile-long major thoroughfare through the heart of Broward County, State Road 842 is also known as West Broward Boulevard and East Las Olas Boulevard (connected with a three-block section on Southeast Third Avenue in downtown Fort Lauderdale). The western terminus is an intersection with University Drive (SR 817) in Plantation, although West Broward Boulevard continues an additional 5.5 miles westward (to the boundary between Sunrise and Plantation); its current eastern terminus is an intersection with South Atlantic Boulevard (SR A1A) in Fort Lauderdale.
The main east-west access route to downtown Fort Lauderdale, SR 842 extends from two major shopping malls (Broward Mall and Fashion Center) at its western terminus, passing by numerous strip malls and residential neighborhoods in Lauderhill and western Fort Lauderdale. In the downtown area, government buildings and banks line SR 842 (the Broward County Transit central bus terminal is on the corner of SR 842 and Northwest First Avenue), just west of SR 842's zigzag onto East Las Olas Boulevard, a major shopping district. The State Road continues eastward past Fort Lauderdale Hospital, through an affluent neighborhood that gives the city the nickname The Venice of the Americas, before crossing the Intracoastal Waterway and arriving at a beach that was once popular with college students for their spring break. Within three blocks of SR 842 are two public golf courses, the Museum of Discovery and Science, the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, campuses of Florida Atlantic University and Broward Community College, and (directly under Las Olas Boulevard) the 864-foot-long New River Tunnel, through which U.S. Route 1 (SR 5) passes under the waterway.
Until the mid 1980s, SR 842 was exclusively on Broward Boulevard (its historic eastern terminus was an intersection with Federal Highway (US 1) two blocks from the northern entrance of the New River Tunnel), while Las Olas Boulevard was designated Alternate State Road A1A.
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State Road 842 | Succeeded by 844 |
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