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The South Luzon Expressway (SLEX), [c] signed as E2 of the Philippine expressway network and R-3 of the Metro Manila arterial road network, is a controlled-access highway that connects Metro Manila to the provinces in the Calabarzon, Mimaropa and Bicol Region on the island of Luzon in the Philippines.
[9] [10] [11] In 1989, the Philippine National Construction Corporation proposed extending the expressway by 20 kilometers (12 mi) from Mabalacat to Capas, Tarlac, and 82 kilometers (51 mi) to Rosales, Pangasinan, following presidential decrees of 1977 and 1983, but the plan was not implemented. [12] [13]
The Philippine highway network is a network of national roads owned and maintained by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and organized into three classifications according to their function or purpose: national primary, secondary, and tertiary roads. The national roads connecting major cities are numbered from N1 to N83.
The North Luzon Expressway (NLEX), [a] signed as E1 of the Philippine expressway network, partially as N160 [b] of the Philippine highway network, and partially as R-8 [b] of the Metro Manila arterial road network, [c] is a controlled-access highway that connects Metro Manila to the provinces of the Central Luzon region in the Philippines.
15.08 km (9.37 mi) [17] 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.
NLEX Segment 10 (Harbor Link), the second phase of the NLEX Harbor Link project, is a four-lane, 5.65-kilometer (3.51 mi) fully elevated expressway which connects with the Karuhatan Link (Segment 9) in Valenzuela to C-3 Road in Caloocan, where two ramps carry it to the west for another 2.60 kilometers (1.62 mi) up to Radial Road 10 (R-10) in ...
The original plan for the third stage was conceptually in the 1990s. The route would have been a 10.5-kilometer (6.5 mi) route between Quirino Avenue and Sgt. Rivera and Stage 2 for its two routes would have run from Buendia (Gil Puyat) to Quirino Avenue for 2.5 kilometers (1.6 mi), then again from Sgt. Rivera to NLEX for 3.0 kilometers (1.9 mi).
The second label is a letter, standing for the first letter of the next town if one is traveling on that direction, then the distance in kilometers, from the town. In the example to the right, a milestone in Ortigas Avenue in Pasig says it is 14 kilometers (8.7 mi) from Rizal Park, and 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) from Cainta.