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The avenue starts at the Quezon Memorial Circle and runs through to the Welcome Rotonda near the boundary of Quezon City and Manila. Lined with palm trees and other species of tree on its center island and spanning six to fourteen lanes, it is a major north-south and east-west corridor of Quezon City.
Ortigas Avenue is a 12.1 km (7.5 mi) highway connecting eastern Metro Manila and western Rizal in the Philippines.It is one of the busiest highways in Metro Manila, serving as the main thoroughfare of the metro's east–west corridor, catering mainly to traffic to and from Rizal.
The highway used to start in or near Manila and took the present-day alignment of J.P. Rizal Avenue in Makati (formerly part of Rizal), branching off from Santa Ana, Manila, [7] [8] and later the present-day alignments of P. Sanchez Street in Santa Mesa and Shaw Boulevard. [9]
With this, it was to be renamed Boy Scouts Avenue, but the government disagreed. [6] [7] By 1976, the country's capital had been transferred back to Manila, with only the Quezon Memorial built on the supposed capitol site. In 1984, the avenue, alongside East Avenue, was renamed President Carlos P. Garcia Avenue after the former president. [8]
The station is named after the center, as well as the nearby Ortigas Avenue. [2] Ortigas station is the sixth station for trains headed to Taft Avenue and the eighth station for trains headed to North Avenue. It is one of three stations to be situated in Mandaluyong and the northernmost one, near the boundary with Quezon City. [3]
Previously called Silangan Avenue (Tagalog for east), [3] the avenue forms the eastern boundary of the formerly proposed 400-hectare (990-acre) Diliman Quadrangle within the former Diliman Estate, also known as Hacienda de Tuason, purchased by the Philippine Commonwealth government in 1939 as the new capital to replace Manila. [4]
Quezon Boulevard is a short stretch of highway in Manila, Philippines, running north–south through the district of Quiapo.It is a six- to ten-lane 1.1-kilometer-long (0.68 mi) divided boulevard designated as a component of National Route 170 (N170) of the Philippine highway network, except for its service roads, [2] and Radial Road 8 (R-8) of Manila's arterial road network, which links the ...
The Welcome Rotonda, officially the Mabuhay Rotonda, is a roundabout in Quezon City, Philippines. It is located a few meters from the city's border with Manila, at the intersection of E. Rodriguez, Sr. Boulevard, Mayon Street, Quezon Avenue, Nicanor Ramirez Street, and España Boulevard. The name may also refer to the monument situated on its ...