This list of roads in Metro Manila summarizes the major thoroughfares and the numbering system currently being implemented in Metro Manila, the Philippines.
This list only covers roads that are listed as National Primary, National Secondary, or National Tertiary Roads on the Department of Public Works and Highways's Infrastructure Atlas, as well as the previous Circumferential and Radial Road system prior to 2014. These road classifications are defined as follows:
National Primary Roads – Contiguous road sections extending that connect major cities. Primary roads make up the main trunk line or backbone of the National Road System.[3]
National Secondary Roads – Roads that directly connect major ports, major ferry terminals, major airports, tourist service centers, and major government infrastructure to National Primary Roads.[3]
Both Primary and Secondary roads may be named as Bypass Roads or Diversion Roads, which divert pass-through traffic away from city or municipality business centers with affirmative feasibility studies, or roads that would connect or fill the gap between adjoining National roads.[3]
National Tertiary Roads – Other existing roads under the Department of Public Works and Highways that perform a local function.[3]
Any roads not classified as National Primary, National Secondary, or National Tertiary may be classified as follows:
Provincial Roads – Roads that connect barangays through rural areas, major provincial government infrastructure, and/or cities and municipalities without traversing any National Roads.[3]
Municipal and City Roads – Roads within a poblacion or roads that connect Provincial and National Roads or provide inter-barangay connections to major Municipal and City Infrastructure without traversing Provincial Roads[3]
Barangay Roads – Any other public roads within a barangay not covered by other classifications.[3]
Numbered routes
Circumferential and radial roads
The flagpole in front of the Jose Rizal Memorial Monument in Rizal Park is the kilometer zero of all the roads in Luzon and the rest of the Philippines.
The first road numbering system in the Philippines was adapted in 1940 by the administration of President Manuel Quezon, and was very much similar to U.S. Highway numbering system. Portions of it are 70 roads labeled Highway 1 to Highway 60. Some parts of the numbering system are Admiral Dewey Boulevard (Highway 1), Calle Manila (Highway 50) and 19 de Junio (Highway 54).
In 1945, the Metropolitan Thoroughfare Plan was submitted by Quezon City planners Louis Croft and Antonio Kayanan which proposed the laying of 10 radial roads, which purposes in conveying traffic in and out of the city of Manila to the surrounding cities and provinces, and the completion of six Circumferential Roads, that will act as beltways of the city, forming altogether a web-like arterial road system.[4] The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is the government agency that deals with these projects.
The road numbering for radial roads are R-1 up to R-10. The radial roads never intersect one another and they do not intersect circumferential roads twice; hence they continue straight routes leading out from the city of Manila to the provinces. The numbering is arranged in a counter-clockwise pattern, wherein the southernmost is R-1 and the northernmost is R-10. Circumferential roads are numbered C-1 to C-6, the innermost beltway is C-1, while the outermost is C-6.
Radial roads
There are ten radial roads that serves the purpose of conveying traffic in and out of the city of Manila to the surrounding cities of the metropolis and to the provinces, numbered in a counter clockwise pattern.[5] All radial roads starts at Kilometer Zero, demarked by a marble marcos across the Rizal Monument in Rizal Park along Roxas Boulevard.[6][7]
The road lies parallel to Radial Road 1, connecting the City of Manila to Cavite and Batangas. The road starts from the Lagusnilad Underpass in front of the National Museum in Ermita. The road, as Taft Avenue, will follow a straight route, and after crossing EDSA in Pasay, becomes Elpidio Quirino Avenue. E. Quirino Avenue serves as the main road in the suburb of Parañaque, until it becomes Diego Cera Avenue upon entering Las Piñas. The road then becomes the Aguinaldo Highway after crossing the Alabang–Zapote Road. Aguinaldo Highway serves as the main thoroughfare in the Province of Cavite, ending in the Tagaytay Rotunda, and becoming the Tagaytay–Talisay Road, which ends in front of the Taal Lake. The Manila LRT Line 1 follows the route of R-2 from Padre Burgos Avenue to EDSA.
The entire road is an expressway, except for its northern end starting from its junction with Sales Interchange. It is jointly operated by the Skyway Operation and Management Corporation (SomCo) and the Citra Metro Manila Tollways Corporation (CMMTC). Although the kilometer zero of the road is at Rizal Park, the road officially starts from the junction of South Luzon Expressway and Quirino Avenue. The road will follow a straight route starting from Paco, Manila, passing through the provinces of Laguna and Cavite, to Santo Tomas, Batangas, where it becomes the Southern Tagalog Arterial Road or the STAR Tollway. The STAR Tollway then connects Santo Tomas to the Batangas Port in Batangas City.
The road itself is incomplete. It starts from the junction of Pedro Gil Street and Quirino Avenue in San Andres, Manila, and it enters Makati before ending in an intersection with Rockwell Drive. A logical continuation of the road starts from the junction of EDSA and Kalayaan Avenue. The road again ends in a dead end in Kalawaan, Pateros. The continuation of the road starts from the east bank of the Manggahan Floodway, as Highway 2000. Highway 2000 becomes the Taytay Diversion Road after crossing Road 1 in Taytay, Rizal. The proposed Pasig River Expressway is also labeled R-4. The road currently spans 23.5 kilometers (14.6 mi).
Radial Road 5 starts from the upper banks of the Pasig River, parallel to Radial Road 4 on the lower banks. The road will enter Mandaluyong and will become an important thoroughfare in the industrial downtown of Pasig and the Ortigas Center. The road will eventually become the Manila East Road, the main transportation corridor of the Province of Rizal, and terminates in Pagsanjan, Laguna.
Radial Road 6 starts from the junction of Mendiola Street, Recto Avenue, and Legarda Street. The road will serve as an important thoroughfare in Santa Mesa, Manila, and enters Quezon City before crossing G. Araneta Avenue to become Aurora Boulevard. The boulevard then enters the city of San Juan and the districts of New Manila and Cubao in Quezon City and serves as the main thoroughfare in Araneta Center. The road becomes Marikina–Infanta Highway (Marcos Highway) after crossing Katipunan Avenue. The highway then passes through the cities of Marikina then in Pasig and transverses the province of Rizal. The road continues further and terminates in Infanta, Quezon. The LRT Line 2 follows the route of R-6 from Legarda Street in Sampaloc, Manila to Marcos Highway in between the boundaries of Santolan, Pasig and Calumpang, Marikina. The road spans 88.6 kilometers (55.1 mi) long.
Radial Road 7 starts from Quiapo, Manila. The road follows a direct route towards Quezon City. After crossing the Quezon City Memorial Circle, it becomes Commonwealth Avenue, the widest road in the Philippines. The route then follows Regalado Highway in Fairview, Quezon City, and it ends in a junction with Quirino Highway in the Neopolitan Business Park in Lagro. The road drives north to Bulacan, until it ends with a junction with Fortunato Halili Avenue. The currently under construction North Luzon East Expressway or the R-7 Expressway is a continuation of this road.
The Radial Road 9 consists of the northern portion of the Pan-Philippine Highway or AH-26.(R-2 takes the southern portion) The LRT Line 1 follows the route of R-9 from Manila to Monumento, Caloocan. R-9 starts as the Rizal Bridge from Padre Burgos Avenue. It follows a straight northward route parallel to R-8. The road becomes MacArthur Highway after crossing the Monumento Roundabout in Caloocan. The road officially ends in the road diversion in Rosario where it diverges into Kennon Road.
The Radial Road 10 is currently a 6.7-kilometer-long (4.2 mi) highway from the Roxas Bridge over Pasig River in Manila to C-4 Road in Navotas. There was a proposed project of extending it to Bataan, as the Manila-Bataan Coastal Road. The proposed highway would be built over fishponds and would also serve as flood barriers for the coastal provinces of Bulacan, Pampanga, and Bataan. The project has long since died, but the top local government chiefs of Central Luzon led by RDC Chair and San Fernando City Mayor Oscar Rodriguez, and Zambales Governor Hermogenes Ebdane, Jr. revived the project and approved the CLIP for 2011 to 2016 in the recent 6th RDC meeting in Balanga.
Circumferential roads
There are six circumferential roads around the City of Manila that acts as beltways for the city. The first two runs inside the Manila city proper, while the next three runs outside the City of Manila. Another circumferential road, the C-6, will run outside Metro Manila and is under construction.
Circumferential Road 1 or C-1 is a route that runs inside the Manila city proper, passing through the city districts of Tondo, San Nicolas, Binondo, Santa Cruz, Quiapo, Sampaloc, San Miguel, and Ermita. It starts from the North Port as Recto Avenue and becomes Legarda Street after crossing R-6. It then becomes Nepomuceno and P. Casal Streets in Quiapo. The road then crosses the Pasig River as Ayala Boulevard, which ends in Taft Avenue and enters Rizal Park as Finance Drive, which merges into the southern part of Padre Burgos Avenue, which ends in a junction with Roxas Boulevard.
The C-2 Road starts from Tondo, Manila, passing through the Manila city districts of Santa Cruz, Sampaloc, Santa Mesa, Pandacan, Paco, and Malate. It starts from R-10 (Mel Lopez Boulevard) as Capulong Street, becomes Tayuman Street past Juan Luna Street, then continues on as Arsenio H. Lacson Avenue in Santa Cruz district and becomes Nagtahan Street past Nagtahan Interchange. It then crosses the Pasig River, then becomes President Quirino Avenue, which continues on until it reaches R-1 (Roxas Boulevard), passing through the Paco and Malate districts.
The C-3 Road is a route that lies outside the City of Manila. It starts as the C-3 Road in Navotas, and becomes 5th Avenue after entering Caloocan. It becomes Sergeant E. Rivera Avenue after crossing A. Bonifacio Street, and becomes G. Araneta Avenue after crossing the Santo Domingo Street in Quezon City. The road ends shortly after entering San Juan, only resuming at the junction of J.P. Rizal Avenue and South Avenue. South Avenue becomes Ayala Avenue Extension after crossing Metropolitan Avenue. The route is then rerouted west to Gil Puyat Avenue at its junction with Ayala Avenue. The then-proposed Metro Manila Skybridge would have bridged the missing segment of the road but its alignment was turned over to give way for Skyway Stage 3.
The C-4 Road starts from Navotas. It becomes Paterio Aquino Avenue, then becomes Gen. San Miguel Street and then Samson Road after entering Caloocan. After crossing the Monumento Roundabout, C-4 becomes EDSA, the most important thoroughfare in the metropolis. With 2.34 million vehicles and almost 314,354 cars passing through it and its segments everyday, the road is also the busiest highway and most congested in the metropolis. The road ends at the Globe Rotunda fronting SM Mall of Asia in Pasay. The MRT Line 3 follows the route of C-4, from North Avenue to Taft Avenue.
Several arising controversies regarding an expressway MCTEP, properties of Sen. Manny Villar, and the constant squatter demolishing issues in Quezon City causes the C-5 Road, although complete, have less than half of the length, only 32.5 kilometers (20.2 mi), be functional. The road from the Karuhatan Exit of the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) segment that crosses the NLEX mainline and becomes Mindanao Avenue. The road will then follow the route of Congressional Avenue and Luzon Avenue, crossing Commonwealth Avenue and becoming Tandang Sora Avenue, which becomes Katipunan Avenue after crossing Magsaysay Avenue in the University of the Philippines Diliman campus. The road will then follow the route of Col. Bonny Serrano Avenue and become Eulogio Rodriguez, Jr. Avenue until Pasig and Carlos P. Garcia Avenue upon entering Makati. The road ends in the East Service Road in Taguig, parallel to the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX). A continuation of the road, which is now accessible by using the partially opened C-5 Southlink Expressway across SLEX, starts from the West Service Road in Pasay to Coastal Road in Las Piñas.
Currently operational in San Jose del Monte, Bulacan, San Mateo, Rizal, and from Taytay, Rizal to Taguig. It is planned to be extended north up to Marilao, Bulacan and south up to Noveleta, Cavite. The Southeast Metro Manila Expressway, a superhighway currently under construction, would be considered part of C-6. It will act as a beltway of Metro Manila, so that buses and other transportation vehicles coming from the southern provinces going to the northern provinces would not need to pass through Metro Manila, thus lessening traffic in the metropolis.
The radial and circumferential road numbers are being supplanted by a new highway number system, which the Department of Public Works and Highways have laid out in 2014. The new system classifies the national roads or highways as national primary roads, national secondary roads, and national tertiary roads. Primary national roads are numbered with one to two-digit numbers. Secondary national roads are assigned three-digit numbers, with the first digit being the number of the principal national road of the region. Secondary national roads around Manila mostly connect to N1 and are numbered with 100-series numbers.
Expressways are assigned with numbers with an E prefix to avoid confusion with numbered national roads. Expressways are limited-access roads, with crossing traffic limited to overpasses, underpasses, and interchanges. Some existing expressways serving Metro Manila also form part of the latter's arterial road network (see the list above).
Many other streets in the metropolis are considered major roads. Only Dr. A. Santos Ave (Sucat Road or N63) is designated a primary national road that is not part of the arterial road system. Roads with 3-number designations are secondary national roads.
This list only covers roads that are listed as National Primary, National Secondary, or National Tertiary Roads on the Department of Public Works and Highways's Infrastructure Atlas.[3]
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Also known as 9 de Febero Street and formerly known as Psychopathic Hospital Road. Road continues as Gomezville Street in the northwest and as Domingo Guevara Street in the east.
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