Florida State Road 717

State Road 717 marker

State Road 717
Canal Street
Route information
Maintained by FDOT
Length: 1.714 mi[1] (2.758 km)
Major junctions
South end: CR 880 in Belle Glade
North end: SR 715 in Belle Glade
Location
Counties: Palm Beach
Highway system
SR 716SR 727

A 1.7-mile-long northwest-southeast road in Belle Glade, State Road 717 (SR 717) is also known as West Canal Street, and East Canal Street. State Road 717 is signed northsouth.

Route description

Paralleling the Hillsboro Canal its entire length, SR 717 extends from SR 715 to the intersection of SR 880 and County Road 880 on the eastern edge of the city. From its western terminus of 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 US 441-SR 80 between Belle Glade and Twenty Mile Bend.

Some commercially-prepared maps 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.

History

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).

Major intersections

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

mi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
0.0000.000M.L. King Jr. Boulevard East (SR 880 west / CR 880 east)
0.5400.869 SR 15 south (South Main Street) / SR 80 westsouth end of SR 15 / SR 80 overlap
0.5880.946 SR 15 north (Main Street) / SR 80 east to US 441 / US 98north 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

  1. 1 2 FDOT straight line diagrams, accessed March 2014


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