J. Raymond Watson

J. Raymond Watson

J. Raymond Watson is the engineer considered the creator of Puerto Rico's toll roads system, was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and currently lives in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. He is married and has one son and three grandchildren.

Education

After graduating from San Juan's Central High School, he obtained two Bachellors Degrees from the University of Puerto Rico's Mayagüez campus, in Civil Engineering (Cum Laude) and in Mathematical Sciences (Magna Cum Laude) before completing a Masters Degree in Civil Engineering, with Honors, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After completing his education, he serned as Assistant Professor at the University of Puerto Rico School of Engineering.

Public Service

Governor Luis A. Ferré recruited Watson to serve as Executive Director of Puerto Rico's Highways Authority from 1969 to 1972. He established what was then a revolutionary policy in Puerto Rico, the construction of toll roads in which user fees paid the cost of road-building. As a result, the construction of the expressway between Puerto Rico's two largest cities at the time, San Juan and Ponce, leapfrogged and was completed within several years, cutting travel time by two thirds, from almost four hours to one hour and fifteen minutes.

After transforming Puerto Rico's road-building activities, Watson served as Area Director for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from 1974 until he was recruited in 1977 by Governor Carlos Romero Barceló to serve as the President of the government-owned Puerto Rico Telephone Company (PRTC) until 1979.

In private practice, he established two engineering firms, Raymond Watson and Associates and Watson & Villate. He also headed Prescon Caribe Inc., Abarca Enterprises and served as President of the Palmas del Mar Company, a self-contained city-within-a-city in Humacao, Puerto Rico.

Ray Watson is retired but remains an observer of Puerto Rico's political scene and his opinions are quoted frequently in island publications.


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