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1095:"Resolución para ordenar a la Comisión de Transportación, Infraestructura, y de Recreación y Deportes de la Cámara de Representantes de Puerto Rico, a realizar una investigación sobre las condiciones de la Carretera 142, la cual discurre por los municipios de Dorado, Toa Alta y Corozal, debido a los constantes accidentes automovilísticos en la zona que ponen en peligro la seguridad de los usuarios de dicha vía de rodaje"
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1317:"Resolución para ordenar a la (s) Comisión (es) una jurisdicción correspondiente de la Cámara de Representantes realizar una abarcadora investigación sobre el proceso de construcción de la Carretera PR-142 en Corozal; la participación de los funcionarios gubernamentales en los procesos relacionados con dicha construcción y el efecto ambiental, comunitario y fiscal de dicha construcción y para otros fines"
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between both directions, including more lanes and the installation of lights in dark areas with the collaboration of the municipality of
Corozal. In the long term, PR-142 could be extended to PR-22, but no agreement has yet been reached for this project to become a reality. If the proposed project is
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barrio. PR-823 is concurrent with PR-142 for about one kilometer (0.62 mi) and in most of this concurrency there are two lanes per direction. Shortly after the overlap ends, Corozal begins. The entire length of PR-142 in Toa Alta is located in Río Lajas barrio.
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1449:"Resolución conjunta para ordenar al Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas y a la Autoridad de Carreteras a realizar un estudio sobre la viabilidad, necesidad y conveniencia de construir el Conector de la Carretera PR-142 al Expreso de Diego PR-22"
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In the short term, it is expected that the undivided road between
Corozal and Dorado will be widened as a government initiative to reduce traffic accidents that have occurred on the highway. This project is currently being studied for the placement of a
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948:"Resolución conjunta para designar la Carretera PR-142 que discurre desde el Municipio de Dorado hasta el Municipio de Corozal con el nombre de José Antonio "Sonny" Rodríguez Ortiz"
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1292:"Pueblo Barrio second-order administrative division, Corozal, Puerto Rico"
1163:"Maguayo Barrio second-order administrative division, Dorado, Puerto Rico"
1267:"Abras Barrio second-order administrative division, Corozal, Puerto Rico"
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