Manila's Arterial Road Network

This list of roads in Metro Manila summarizes the major thoroughfares and the numbering system currently being implemented in Metro Manila, Philippines.

Metro Manila's major road network comprises six circumferential roads and ten radial roads connecting the cities of Caloocan, Las Piñas, Makati, Malabon, Mandaluyong, Manila, Marikina, Muntinlupa, Navotas, Parañaque, Pasay, Pasig, Quezon City, San Juan, Taguig, and Valenzuela, and the municipality of Pateros.

Route classification

This list only covers roads that are listed on the Department of Public Works and Highways's Infrastructure Atlas, as well as the previous circumferential and radial road system prior to 2014, and other notable roads in the metro. 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.
* 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.

Both primary and secondary roads may be designated as bypass or diversion roads, which divert through traffic away from city or municipal business centers with affirmative feasibility studies, or roads that would connect or fill the gap between adjoining national roads.

* National tertiary roads – Other existing roads under the Department of Public Works and Highways that perform a local function.

Any roads not classified as national primary, national secondary, or national tertiary may be classified as follows:

* Expressways – Controlled-access highways or limited-access roads, normally with interchanges that may include facilities for levying tolls for passage in an open or closed system.
* Provincial roads – Roads that connect barangays through rural areas, major provincial government infrastructure, and/or cities and municipalities without traversing any national roads.
* 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
* Barangay roads – Any other public roads within a barangay not covered by other classifications.

Additional classifications are unclassified roads, road not yet given official classification, and private roads, roads that are maintained by private entities and may have access restrictions.

Numbered routes

Circumferential and radial roads

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. 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. All radial roads starts at Kilometer Zero, demarked by a marble marker across from the Rizal Monument in Rizal Park along Roxas Boulevard.

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 City of Manila, while the next three runs outside the City of Manila. All are beltways around Intramuros.

Highway network

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.

Expressway network

Expressways are assigned with numbers with an E prefix to avoid confusion with numbered national roads. The network consists of controlled-access highways and 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).

Other major roads

Many other streets in the metropolis are considered major roads. Only Dr. Arcadio Santos Avenue (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 or are considered as notable roads for the specific city or municipality.

Capital District

Eastern Manila District

Mandaluyong

Marikina

Pasig

Quezon City

* N.S. Amoranto Sr. Avenue (formerly called ''Retiro'')
* Balete Drive (New Manila neighborhood of Quezon City)
* Banawe Street (Santa Mesa Heights neighborhood of Quezon City)
* Batasan Road (Batasan Hills, Quezon City)
* Batasan-San Mateo Road (Batasan Road in Quezon City to San Mateo, Rizal)
* Broadway Avenue – (formerly ''Doña Juana Rodriguez''; New Manila neighborhood of Quezon City)
* Bonny Serrano Avenue (formerly called ''Santolan Road''; Katipunan Avenue to Ortigas Avenue) – N185
* D. Tuazon Street (Sgt. Rivera to E. Rodriguez Sr. Avenue in Quezon City)
* Del Monte Avenue (San Francisco del Monte neighborhood of Quezon City)
* Don A. Roces Avenue (Quezon Avenue to Tomas Morato in Quezon City)
* Doña Hemady Avenue (N. Domingo to E. Rodriguez, Sr. Ave.; New Manila neighborhood of Quezon City)
* East Avenue (Diliman neighborhood of Quezon City) – N174
* Eulogio Rodriguez Sr. Avenue (Welcome Rotunda to Cubao District of Quezon City)
* General Luis Street (Novaliches) - N118
* Gilmore Avenue (New Manila neighborhood of Quezon City)
* Greenmeadows Avenue (C5 to Ortigas Avenue)
* Kalayaan Avenue (Elliptical Road to Kamias Road)
* Kamias Road (EDSA to Kalayaan Avenue)
* Mayon Street (La Loma neighborhood of Quezon City)
* Mindanao Avenue (Regalado to Commonwealth Avenue; not to be confused with Mindanao Avenue of C-5 Road)
* North Avenue (Project 6 neighborhood of Quezon City) – N173
* Regalado Avenue (North Fairview District)
* Regalado Highway (Commonwealth Avenue to Quirino Highway in Fairview District, Quezon City)
* Roosevelt Avenue (Quezon Avenue to EDSA in Quezon City)
* Susano Road (Novaliches)
* Timog Avenue (Barangay Laging Handa of Quezon City; ''Timog'' is Tagalog for "south") – N172
* Times Street (Barangay West Triangle; exclusive neighborhood of Quezon City)
* Tomas Morato Avenue (ABS-CBN Compound in South Triangle to E. Rodriguez Sr. Avenue in Quezon City)
* Visayas Avenue (Quezon Memorial Circle to Tandang Sora Avenue in Quezon City)
* West Avenue (Project 7 neighborhood of Quezon City) – N171
* White Plains Avenue (Temple Drive to EDSA)
* Zabarte Road (Quirino Highway to Caloocan)

San Juan

Northern Manila District (Camanava)

Caloocan

;South Caloocan
* 5th Avenue – N130
* 10th Avenue
* A. Mabini Street
* Samson Road – N120
;North Caloocan
* Camarin Road
* Deparo Road
* Susano Road
* Zabarte Road

Malabon

* Governor Pascual Avenue
* Paterio Aquino Avenue

Navotas

* North Bay Boulevard

Valenzuela

* General Luis Street - N118
* Maysan Road – N118

Southern Manila District

Las Piñas

Makati

Muntinlupa

Parañaque

Pasay

Pateros

* B. Morcilla Street (Pateros town proper)
* Jose P. Rizal Avenue Extension (also known as Guadalupe-Pateros Road)
* M. Almeda Street (Gen. Luna Street in Taguig to R. Jabson Street in Pasig)
* P. Rosales Street (going to Tipas area in Taguig)

Taguig

* South Luzon Expressway
* University Parkway (Bonifacio Global City)
* Upper McKinley Road (Bonifacio Capital District)

See also

* Road numbering
*List of eponymous streets in Metro Manila
* List of renamed streets in Metro Manila
*List of expressways in the Philippines
*Highways in the Philippines

References

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