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N180 Highway (Philippines)
National Route 180 (N180) is a secondary national route that forms part of the Philippine highway network, running from Cubao, Quezon City to Ermita, Manila. Route description N180 follows a route that stars at Cubao in Quezon City, which then passes through the district of New Manila in Quezon City, the city of San Juan, Quezon City once again, and the districts of Santa Mesa, Sampaloc, Quiapo, San Miguel, and Ermita in Manila. The highway connects key locations on its route, and runs through the heart of Manila. The highway continues westward as Padre Burgos Avenue (N180) and eastward as a continuation of Aurora Boulevard (N59). The highway's section from EDSA in Quezon City to Recto Avenue/Mendiola Street in Manila forms part of Radial Road 6 (R-6), while the rest of the route up to Taft Avenue forms part of Circumferential Road 1 (C-1). The LRT Line 2 runs on top of the route, utilizing the center island on most segments. Aurora Boulevard Starting in Cubao, N180 follows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Public Works And Highways
The Department of Public Works and Highways ( fil, Kagawaran ng mga Pagawain at Lansangang Bayan}), abbreviated as DPWH, is the executive department of the Philippine government solely vested with the Mandate to “be the State's engineering and construction arm” and, as such, it is “tasked to carry out the policy” of the State to “maintain an engineering and construction arm and continuously develop its technology, for the purposes of ensuring the safety of all infrastructure facilities and securing for all public works and highways the highest efficiency and the most appropriate quality in construction” and shall be responsible for “(t)he planning, design, construction and maintenance of infrastructure facilities, especially national highways, flood control and water resources development systems, and other public works in accordance with national development objectives,” provided that, the exercise of which “shall be decentralized to the fullest extent feasib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taft Avenue
Taft Avenue ( fil, Abenida Taft; es, Avenida Taft) is a major road in the south of Metro Manila. It passes through three cities in the metropolis: Manila, Pasay and Parañaque. The road was named after the former Governor-General of the Philippines and U.S. President, William Howard Taft; the Philippines was a former commonwealth territory of the United States in the first half of the 20th century. The avenue is a component of National Route 170 (N170), a secondary road in the Philippine highway network, and anchors R-2 of the Manila arterial road network. Route description From the north, Taft Avenue starts at the Lagusnilad vehicular underpass at intersection with Padre Burgos Avenue in Ermita. It then crosses the Ayala Boulevard and Finance Street and forms the eastern edge of Rizal Park up to Kalaw Avenue. It then crosses United Nations Avenue, Padre Faura Street, Pedro Gil Street (formerly known as Herran), where it also crosses the district boundary with Malate, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilmore Avenue
Gilmore Avenue is a main road and suburban distributor in Kwinana south of Perth, and runs through or alongside the suburbs of Medina, Orelia, Calista and Leda, linking them to the Kwinana Freeway via Thomas Road and also to Kwinana Hub Shopping Centre. In 1999 it was extended to Mandurah Road through the Leda Nature Reserve. It continues as Dixon Road into Rockingham. The northern section services the town of Centre of Kwinana. A $4 million project to upgrade the road to a dual carriageway, between Runnymede Gate and Mandurah Road, began in September 2014. Completion is expected in March 2015. Major intersections * Summerton Road/Sulphur Road * Challenger Avenue - to Parmelia Parmelia may refer to: * Parmelia (barque) ''Parmelia'' was a barque built in Quebec, Canada, in 1825. Originally registered on 31 May in Quebec, she sailed to Great Britain and assumed British registry. She made one voyage for the British East I ... * Wellard Road See also References Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Go-Belmonte Street
Betty Go-Belmonte Street is a street running through the Quezon City#New Manila, New Manila district of Quezon City, Philippines. It is a notable road in a generally northwest-southeast orientation between the junction with E. Rodriguez Sr. Avenue in New Manila and the junction with N. Domingo Street also in Quezon City#New Manila, New Manila. It is served by Betty Go-Belmonte station of the Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 2, Manila Line 2. The street was named after a Betty Go-Belmonte, notable Filipino journalist who was an institution with her contributions in the writing press during the Martial Law period as well as one of the founders of two of the major broadsheet newspaper in the country namely The Philippine Daily Inquirer and The Philippine Star. She was also the wife of former Mayor of Quezon City, Quezon City Mayor and Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, Jr., Feliciano Belmonte Jr. Until 1997, the street ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LRT Line 2 (Metro Manila)
The Light Rail Transit Line 2, also known as LRT Line 2 (LRT-2) or Megatren, is a rapid transit line in Metro Manila in the Philippines, generally running in an east–west direction along the Radial Road 6 and a portion of the Circumferential Road 1, referred to as the Purple Line, and previously known as the Mass Rapid Transit Line 2 or MRT Line 2 (MRT-2). Although the line is operated by the Light Rail Transit Authority, resulting in it being called as "LRT-2", it is actually a heavy rail, rapid transit line. Instead of the light rail vehicles used in earlier lines, it uses very large metro cars, longer and wider than those used on the PNR network, and roughly the same size as those used on the MTR in Hong Kong, MRT in Bangkok and Singapore, and the heavy metro lines of the Taipei Metro. Until the opening of MRT Line 7 (MRT-7) in 2022 and the Metro Manila Subway (MMS) in 2025, it is the country's only line using these types of trains. Envisioned in the 1970s as part of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circumferential Road 1
Circumferential Road 1 (C-1), informally known as the C-1 Road, is a network of roads and bridges that all together form the first and innermost beltway of Metro Manila in the Philippines. Spanning some , it connects the districts of Ermita, Intramuros, San Miguel, Quiapo, Sampaloc, Santa Cruz, Binondo, San Nicolas, and Tondo in Manila. History The development of a major road network in Manila was first conceived in the Metropolitan Thoroughfare Plan of 1945, predicting that the metropolis in the 1940s will expand further to the shorelines of Laguna de Bay. The plan proposed the laying of circumferential roads 1 to 6 and radial roads 1 to 10. Route description Recto Avenue Between its northern terminus at the Manila North Harbor and Mendiola Street, C-1 is known as Recto Avenue. It begins at the intersection with Mel Lopez Boulevard (R-10) at the border between Tondo and San Nicolas and runs the entire length of Recto Avenue passing through Binondo, Santa Cruz, Quiapo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radial Road 6
Radial Road 6 is the sixth radial road in Metro Manila, in the Philippines. It passes through the cities of Manila, Quezon City, San Juan, Pasig, and Marikina, as well as Cainta, and Antipolo in the province of Rizal up to Santa Maria, Laguna and Infanta, Quezon Parts and Intersections of the R-6 Road Legarda Street R-6 includes the segment of Legarda Street from its intersection with Recto Avenue ( C-1) and Mendiola Street, to the Nagtahan Interchange. Magsaysay Boulevard Magsaysay Boulevard is a 6-8 lane main road in Manila. It starts at the Nagtahan Interchange in Manila and ends at the intersection with Gregorio Araneta Avenue ( C-3) in Quezon City. It was formerly part of the ''"Manila Provincial Road"'' and called as the ''" Santa Mesa Boulevard"''. Aurora Boulevard Aurora Boulevard is a 4-6 lane avenue in Quezon City and San Juan. Aurora Boulevard is one of the two roads that form the majority portion of the Radial Road 6 (R-6) in Metro Manila, passing through the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mendiola Street
Mendiola Street (simply known as "Mendiola") is a short thoroughfare in Manila, Philippines. The street is named after Enrique Mendiola, an educator, textbook author, and member of the first Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines. As a street close to Malacañang Palace, the President of the Philippines' official residence, it has been the site of numerous and sometimes bloody demonstrations. On the north end of the street is the Don Chino Roces Bridge, named in honor of Chino Roces, a well-known figure during the Philippines' Martial Law years. (An illuminated street sign above the intersection of Recto and Mendiola erroneously refers to the latter street as Chino Roces Avenue). Mendiola Street starts at the intersection of Legarda Street and Claro M. Recto Avenue and ends at Jose Laurel Street, just outside Malacañang Palace. Four colleges and universities which form a part of the University Belt are on Mendiola Street. To protect Malacañang Pala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Miguel, Manila
San Miguel is a primarily middle-class residential area of the City of Manila, and is one of the city's sixteen traditional districts. Background Much of San Miguel is located on a riverine island, separated by the mainland by the Estero de (Stream of) San Miguel, and by the Pasig River. In order to reach the district, one has to cross any of the following bridges traversing Estero de San Miguel, from west to east: Carlos Palanca Bridge, P. Casal Bridge, Nepomunceno Bridge, Arlegui Bridge, San Rafael Bridge, Chino Roces Bridge (carrying Mendiola Street), Concepcion Aguila Bridge and J.P. Laurel Bridge. P. Casal Bridge's logical extension is the Ayala Bridge, that connects it to the southern bank of the Pasig. On the district's eastern parts is another riverine island, bounded by the Estero de San Miguel and Estero de Sampaloc. A small part is on the mainland, at the far eastern corner. San Miguel also includes the Isla de Convalecencia, the largest island in the Pasig R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sampaloc, Quezon
Sampaloc, officially the Municipality of Sampaloc ( tgl, Bayan ng Sampaloc), is a 5th class municipality in the province of Quezon, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 13,629 people. The municipality is situated in a valley completely surrounded by high evergreen hills in the heart of the Sierra Madre Mountains between the municipalities of Lucban and Mauban, Quezon. History Spanish period Sampaloc used to be the Barrio Dingin of Lucban, Quezon consisting of three sitios. It was later renamed into Sampaloc because of the presence of a large tamarind tree found in the center of the settlement during the earlier days. The name was also changed in Alfonso Trece for a time to honor the King of Spain. In 1873, Capt. Pedro Cadelina of Lucban recommended to change the barrio into a municipality but due to lack of residents, it was only made into a “visita”. “Teniente Mayores” were appointed to head the ”visita”, the first of whom was from Pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Juan, Metro Manila
San Juan, officially the City of San Juan ( fil, Lungsod ng San Juan), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 126,347 people. It is geographically located at Metro Manila's approximate center and is also the country's smallest city in terms of land area. The city is known historically for the site of the first battle of the Katipunan, the organization which led the 1896 Philippine Revolution against the Spanish Empire. Notable landmarks today such as Pinaglabanan Shrine and heritage homes are located in the city. Other locations include Greenhills and Santolan Town Plaza, making the city a major shopping hub with a range of upscale, boutique and bargain retail. Etymology "San Juan" is a contraction of the city's traditional name of "San Juan del Monte" (). As with numerous other places in the Philippines, the name combines a patron saint and a toponym; in this case Saint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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