Florida State Road 842

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State Road 842, also known as Broward Boulevard, East Las Olas Boulevard, and Southeast 3 Avenue is an eight-mile-long major east-west thoroughfare through Broward County, Florida. The western terminus of State Road 842 is an intersection with Flamingo Road in Plantation, Florida; its eastern terminus is an intersection with State Road A1A in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Downtown Fort Lauderdale looking over State Road 842 (Broward Boulevard)

It serves as the main east-west access route to downtown Fort Lauderdale. In the downtown area, government buildings and banks line State Road 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 State Road 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, State Road 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.