Puerto Rico Highway 30

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Puerto Rico Highway 30, or PR-30 (Expreso Cruz Ortiz Stella) is a main freeway in Puerto Rico which connects the city of Caguas to the town of Humacao.

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PR-30 westward from Humacao to Las Piedras
PR-30 westward from Humacao to Las Piedras
PR-30 near its east terminus to PR-53.
PR-30 near its east terminus to PR-53.

It is 30 kilometers long, and has several exits (metric units (km) used):

CAGUAS

Exits 0A and 0B: Caguas (PR-1) PR-30 begins from here. Coming from PR-52 from south, drivers can access PR-30 without having to go through PR-1, and people from PR-30 can directly access PR-52 north. People who want to take south have to first go through PR-1, and people from San Juan going to PR-30 have also to take PR-1.

Exit 3: Caguas Centro/Ave. Rafael Cordero: The first exit, which connect PR-30 to its parallel route PR-189. This exits grants access to Plaza Centro, the second most important shopping center in Caguas.

GURABO

Exit 4: Caguas Este/Navarro (PR-189): Grants access to University of Turabo and West Gurabo.

Exit 5: San Lorenzo (PR-203): Access to San Lorenzo, connects PR-30 with PR-183

Exit 7: Gurabo (PR-181): Access to the main downtown of Gurabo, south to Jaguar barrio in San Lorenzo and further north to Trujillo Alto

JUNCOS

Exit 12 (East Only): Canovanas (PR-185): Access to north Juncos and Canovanas, connects PR-30 with PR-66 and PR-3.

Exit 13: Juncos (PR-189, PR-9929 and PR-185 (West)): Access to downtown Juncos and Lirios barrio.

Exit 14: Juncos (PR-189) and Naguabo (PR-31)

LAS PIEDRAS

Exit 19: Exit to Valenciano area of Las Piedras. A small shopping center with a movie theatre, the largest in the southeast is there.

Exit 21: Las Piedras (PR-183) Access to downtown Las Piedras, and the Montones barrio.

Exit 22: Tejas (PR-921) Access to East Las Piedras and the Tejas barrio.

HUMACAO

Exit 25: Humacao Centro (PR-198), Anton Ruiz (PR-60): Access to Center Humacao and North Humacao.

Exit 26: Humacao Centro (PR-908): Access to the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao and the Patagonia area.

Exit 28: Mariana (PR-909): Access to the Mariana barrio.

Exit 29 (East Only): Candelero, Miradero (PR-3): Access to Candelero and South Humacao. This exit can only be taken from PR-30 to PR-3, but not from PR-3 to PR-30. The exit serves as a pass-by route to Palmas del Mar without having to pay the toll found immediately entering PR-53 from PR-30 in the south direction.

Exits 30A and 30B: Fajardo, Yabucoa (PR-53): Final Terminus. To the south is Yabucoa and going north is Fajardo, 30 kilometers from Humacao.

[edit] Problems

This highway is considered highly dangerous due to the number of cars that transit it, part because many people in Humacao and nearby municipalities work in San Juan. There are also concerns of cracks and holes, most of them in the right lane in both directions. The highway is in frequent repairs, especially the Caguas-Gurabo segment. There are possibilities that this highway has not been properly repaired, intentionally, because drivers speed up to more than the specified speed limit (55 mph) and having the highway repaired would mean more fatal accidents as a good highway would invite people to drive faster.

[edit] See also


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