Route Description
In the downtown area, government buildings and banks line State Road 842 (the Broward County Transit central bus terminal is on the corner of SR 842 and Northwest First Avenue), just west of SR 842's zigzag onto East Las Olas Boulevard, a major shopping district. The State Road continues eastward past Fort Lauderdale Hospital, through an affluent neighborhood that gives the city the nickname The Venice of the Americas, before crossing the Intracoastal Waterway and arriving at a beach that is popular with college students for spring break.
Within three blocks of State Road 842 are two public golf courses, the Museum of Discovery and Science, the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, campuses of Florida Atlantic University and Broward Community College, and (directly under Las Olas Boulevard) the 864-foot-long New River Tunnel, through which U.S. Route 1 (SR 5) passes under the waterway.
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