Puerto Rico Highway 167
Puerto Rico Highway 167 (PR-167) is one of the main highways in the San Juan–Caguas–Guaynabo metropolitan area of Puerto Rico. Highway 167 starts at Puerto Rico Highway 165 in Levittown and goes until Puerto Rico Highway 156 in Comerío. It is two-lane per direction all through Cataño and a vast area of Bayamón, and becomes rural a couple of kilometers before entering Naranjito. During the rainy season this road is risky as there is chance of rock fall and debris onto the road. This occurs mainly due to an increase in the moisture content of the soil, which loosens the suspended rocks adjacent to the highway. It has been proposed to make this road fully parallel to the future tollway PR-5, which will be extended until Comerío. The future tollway will pass through the only cable-suspended bridge in the island in Bayamón near the border with Naranjito.[3]
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| Maintained by Puerto Rico DTPW | ||||
| Length | 28.4 km[1] (17.6 mi) | |||
| Existed | 1953[2]–present | |||
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| Municipalities | Comerío, Naranjito, Toa Alta, Bayamón, Cataño, Toa Baja | |||
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The Plata Bridge, a Parker truss bridge built in 1908, was the original connection for route 167 across the Rio La Plata, spanning between Bayamón and Naranjito municipalities.[4] It has been replaced by an adjacent modern bridge that now carries PR-167.
Major intersections
| Municipality | Location | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes | |||
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| Comerío | Doña Elena | 0.0 | 0.0 | | Southern terminus of PR-167 | |||
| 1.9 | 1.2 |  | ||||||
| Naranjito | Nuevo | 8.5 | 5.3 |      | ||||
| Río de la Plata | 8.5– 8.6 | 5.3– 5.3 | Puente Plata[5] | |||||
| Bayamón | Dajaos | 8.9 | 5.5 |  | ||||
| 10.1 | 6.3 |  | ||||||
| Toa Alta | Ortíz | 12.5 | 7.8 |  | ||||
| Bayamón | Buena Vista | 13.5 | 8.4 |  | ||||
| 14.3 | 8.9 |  | Western terminus of PR-829 concurrency | |||||
| 14.4 | 8.9 | | Eastern terminus of PR-829 concurrency | |||||
| 15.4 | 9.6 |  | ||||||
| Pájaros | 17.3 | 10.7 |  | |||||
| 19.2 | 11.9 |  | ||||||
| Cerro Gordo | 20.1 | 12.5 | Avenida Magnolia – Bayamón | |||||
| 21.6 | 13.4 | Avenida Ramón Luis Rodríguez – Bayamón | ||||||
| Bayamón barrio-pueblo | 22.2 | 13.8 |   | |||||
| 22.4– 22.5 | 13.9– 14.0 |  | One-way street; westbound access via Calle Ramón Emeterio Betances | |||||
| Hato Tejas | 22.8 | 14.2 |   | |||||
| 23.2 | 14.4 |  | ||||||
| 25.1 | 15.6 |  | PR-22 exit 13; diamond interchange | |||||
| Cataño |
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| Toa Baja | Sabana Seca | 26.9– 27.0 | 16.7– 16.8 | Avenida Juan "Picolino" Hernández Ferrer – Toa Baja | ||||
| 27.8– 27.9 | 17.3– 17.3 |  | ||||||
| 28.4 | 17.6 | | Northern terminus of PR-167 | |||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also
References
- Google (13 March 2020). "PR-167" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- "Comerío, Memoria Núm. 41" (PDF). Puerto Rico Planning Board (in Spanish). 1955. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
- "Tránsito Promedio Diario (AADT)". Transit Data (Datos de Transito) (in Spanish). DTOP PR. pp. 88–89.
- Luis Pumarada O'Neill and PRSHPO (31 July 1994). "Plata Bridge". National Park Service. Retrieved 16 May 2016. with 3 photos from 1993
- Luis F. Pumarada O’Neill (1991). "Los Puentes Históricos de Puerto Rico" (PDF) (in Spanish). p. 101-102. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
