Tren Urbano
at Bayamón Station
Cities and towns in Puerto Rico are
interconnected by a system of roads, freeways,
expressways, and highways maintained by the Highways and Transportation Authority
under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Transportation, and patrolled
by the Puerto
Rico Police Department. The
island's metropolitan area is served by a public bus transit system
and a metro system called Tren Urbano
(in English: Urban Train). Other forms of public transportation include
seaborne ferries (that serve Puerto Rico's archipelago) as well as Carros
Públicos (private mini buses).
The island has three international airports, the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina, Mercedita Airport in Ponce, and the Rafael
Hernández Airport in Aguadilla, and 27 local
airports. The Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport is the largest aerial
transportation hub in the Caribbean, and one of the largest in the world in
terms of passenger and cargo movement.[196]
Puerto Rico has nine ports in different cities across the main
island. The San Juan Port is the largest in Puerto Rico, and the busiest port in the
Caribbean and the 10th busiest in the United States in terms of commercial
activity and cargo movement, respectively.[196]
The second largest port is the Port of the Americas in Ponce, currently under expansion to increase cargo capacity
to 1.5 million twenty-foot containers (TEUs) per year.[197]
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