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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]
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.
It ran the full length of the South Main Line, but only stopped at only five stations in between. In Manila, it only stopped at the historic Paco station. Afterwards, it stopped at Lucena in Quezon, Naga in Camarines Sur, and in Daraga and Ligao in Albay. Like all services on the South Main Line, there were more stations added.
The Manila Railroad celebrated the first Manila–Legazpi Bicol Express on May 8, 1938. The South Main Line was first proposed in 1875 as part of the plan for the Luzon railway network. [ 9 ] The line was first opened as the Main Line South in 1916 and its first named service was the Lucena Express to Lucena , Quezon .
That same year, the avenue was badly damaged in September, when Typhoon Milenyo hit Manila. In 2010, the LRT Line 1 (LRT-1) of the Manila Light Rail Transit System was extended from Monumento to Roosevelt (now Fernando Poe Jr.), ultimately transversing EDSA to end at the site of the current North Avenue MRT station.
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The highway is also known as National Highway for being such. It forms part of the Calamba to Pagsanjan segment of the Calamba–Sta. Cruz–Famy Junction Road. [1] Its section in Calauan and Victoria is also known as Masapang Highway (misspelled or also known as Maspang Highway), apparently after the barangay of the same name in Victoria where its eastern end is located.