Florida State Road 780
State Road 780 (SR 780), known as Fruitville Road, is a 5-mile-long (8.0 km) east–west street in Sarasota, Florida. The western terminus is an intersection with US 301/SR 683 (Washington Boulevard). The eastern terminus is east of an interchange with Interstate 75 (SR 93) in Fruitville, where the road continues east as County Road 780 (CR 780). West of US 301, Fruitville Road extends one mile (1.6 km) to the west of the end of SR 780, ending at an intersection with the Tamiami Trail (US 41/SR 45) in downtown Sarasota.
State Road 780 | ||||
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| Fruitville Road | ||||
SR 780 highlighted in red | ||||
| Route information | ||||
| Maintained by Florida Department of Transportation | ||||
| Length | 5.636 mi[1] (9.070 km) | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| West end |  US 301 in Sarasota | |||
| East end |  I-75 in Fruitville | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | United States | |||
| State | Florida | |||
| Counties | Sarasota | |||
| Highway system | ||||
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Route description
SR 780 begins at an intersection with US 301/SR 683 in Sarasota, heading east on Fruitville Road, a four to six-lane divided highway, continuing onto County Road 780. West of US 301, Fruitville Road continues as an unnumbered four-lane divided highway to an intersection with US 41/SR 45 in downtown Sarasota.
From the western terminus, SR 780 heads through residential areas with some businesses, widening to six lanes and curving southeast before heading east again, intersecting School Avenue. The state road crosses a Seminole Gulf Railway line and intersects North Lime Avenue. The road continues east through more residential and commercial areas, intersecting North Tuttle Avenue, North Lockwood Ridge Road, and CR 773 (Beneva Road). SR 780 leaves Sarasota for Fruitville and passes through more developed areas, intersecting McIntosh Road, Honore Avenue, and Cattlemen Road before coming to an interchange with I-75/SR 93. Past this interchange, SR 780 comes to its eastern terminus, with Fruitville Road continuing east as CR 780.[1][2]
History
Historically, SR 780 continued eastward on Fruitville Road past the current terminus, through Fordville, before zigzagging through Old Myakka before becoming Clay Gully Road at the northern boundary of Myakka River State Park. Three miles east of Sandy, Clay Gully Road turns northward at the boundary between Sarasota County and DeSoto County, where it reaches the historic eastern terminus of SR 780, an intersection with SR 70 three miles (4.8 km) southeast of Edgeville. The part of former SR 780 east of I-75 became County Road 780 in the early 1980s, after Florida Department of Transportation designated it a secondary State Road (and applied an "S-" prefix to the State Road 780 designation a decade earlier). This was part of a large set of redesignations that transformed the map of the State of Florida.
Major intersections
The entire route is in Sarasota County.
| Location | mi[1] | km | Destinations | Notes | |
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| Sarasota | 0.000 | 0.000 | US 301 (Washington Boulevard / SR 683) – Downtown Sarasota | Western terminus | |
| 2.078 | 3.344 |  CR 773 (Beneva Road) | |||
| Fruitville | 5.355 | 8.618 | I-75 (SR 93) – Tampa, Naples | I-75 exit 210 | |
| 5.636 | 9.070 | east end of state maintenance | |||
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi | |||||
References
- "Straight-Line Diagrams Online GIS Web Application". Florida Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on March 6, 2014. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
- Google (August 18, 2012). "overview of State Road 780" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved August 18, 2012.