Puerto Rico's Interstates

[Grzrd]

I ran across this list on FHWA website.  I'm just curious if they are up to "Contiguous 48" interstate standards, has anybody clinched them, photos, etc.?  I'm also looking for trivia angles.

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/reports/routefinder/table3.cfm

Puerto Rico PRI-1 71.08 71.08 - 71.08 - - -
PRI-2 138.13 138.13 - 138.13 - - -
PRI-3 40.56 40.56 - 40.56 - - -
3 Routes 249.77 249.77 0.00 249.77 0.00 0.00

[oscar]

I ran across this list on FHWA website.  I'm just curious if they are up to "Contiguous 48" interstate standards, has anybody clinched them, photos, etc.?  I'm also looking for trivia angles.

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/reports/routefinder/table3.cfm

Puerto Rico PRI-1 71.08 71.08 - 71.08 - - -
PRI-2 138.13 138.13 - 138.13 - - -
PRI-3 40.56 40.56 - 40.56 - - -
3 Routes 249.77 249.77 0.00 249.77 0.00 0.00

I clinched them all as they were in 2002 (my only visit to PR).  There are pending projects to move non-freeway portions of PRI-2 to a new freeway alignment, and also to build freeways stitching together the fragments of PR 53 along the southeastern coast, which could result in an extension of PRI-3 from Humacao to PR-52 (PRI-1).  Someone better than I at Spanish might be able to find out more from the Puerto Rico DTOP (Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas) website.

Much of PRI-2, and parts of PRI-3, are not up to freeway standard.  Puerto Rico's Interstates were authorized by the same 1980 legislation that gave Alaska its paper Interstates, which does not require construction to Interstate standard.  But the parts that are freeway (most of which are toll "autopistas") look at a casual glance to meet or approach Interstate standard.

My Hawaii Highways site has a two-page collection of the road photos I took in Puerto Rico, including some Interstate ends photos.

[Grzrd]

Great info.  Thank you.