Florida State Road 717

State Road 717 (SR 717) is a 1.7-mile-long (2.7 km) northwest-southeast road in Belle Glade, Palm Beach County, Florida, also known as Canal Street.

State Road 717 marker

State Road 717

Canal Street
Map
Route information
Maintained by FDOT
Length1.714 mi[1] (2.758 km)
Major junctions
South end SR 880 / CR 880 in Belle Glade
North end SR 715 in Belle Glade
Location
CountryUnited States
StateFlorida
CountiesPalm Beach
Highway system
SR 716 SR 727

Route description edit

Paralleling the Hillsboro Canal its entire length, SR 717 extends from SR 880 and County Road 880 (CR 880) on the eastern edge of the city to the intersection of SR 715 on the western edge of the city. From its northern terminus at SR 715 to the intersection with North Main Street (SR 15-80), SR 717 follows the northern edge of the canal; between SR 15-80 and SR 880-CR 880 it follows the southern edge.

Continuing along East Canal Street past the southern terminus of SR 717, a motorist travels eastward on CR 880, itself a former part of SR 880 - which in turn follows the original configuration of U.S. Route 441 (US 441) and SR 80 between Belle Glade and Twenty Mile Bend.[citation needed]

Some commercially prepared maps[which?] erroneously show a "State Road 717" extending eastward from Pahokee on Muck City Road, but this is, in fact, County Road 717 serving the farmlands surrounding Pelican Lake. County Road 717 is often used as a short cut from Pahokee to eastbound US 98/SR 700 to West Palm Beach.[citation needed]

History edit

The current configuration of the State Road is approximately one-third as long as its original route, which extended northward to the Belle Glade Municipal Golf Course at the edge of the Okeechobee Waterway (a canal ringing Lake Okeechobee), then past the Okeechobee Waterway to Kreamer Island (this "extension" has since been orphaned by Florida Department of Transportation).[citation needed]

Major intersections edit

The entire route is in Belle Glade, Palm Beach County.

mi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
0.0000.000 
 
 
 
SR 880 west (M.L. King Jr. Boulevard East) / CR 880 east
Eastern terminus of SR 880; western terminus of CR 880
0.5400.869 
 
 
 
SR 15 south (South Main Street) / SR 80 west
South end of SR 15 / SR 80 overlap
0.5880.946 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SR 15 north (Main Street) / SR 80 east to US 441 / US 98
North end of SR 15 / SR 80 overlap
1.7142.758  
 
SR 715 (Southwest 16th Street) / CR 717 north (West Canal Street North)
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References edit

  1. ^ a b Transportation and Data Analytics Office (May 31, 2019). "Straight Line Diagram of Road Inventory". Florida Department of Transportation. Retrieved January 7, 2020.

External links edit

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