The Quirino Highway, formerly called the El Quirino Express Road or Ipo Road, is a four-to-eight lane, secondary highway that connects Quezon City to the municipality of Norzagaray in

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. The road is designated as National Route 127 (N127) of the

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within the city bounds of Quezon City, Radial Road 7 (R-7), and a spur of

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(R-8) of Metro Manila's arterial road network.

History

Prior to the construction of the Balintawak Interchange and North Diversion Road, it forms an old road that linked the city of

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with

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, previously called as the ''Manila-del Monte Garay Road'', ''Manila-Novaliches Road'', ''Bonifacio-Manila Road'', ''Balintawak-Novaliches Road'', and ''Highway 52''. The portion of the road south of EDSA is presently known as A. Bonifacio Avenue. Circa 1955, the section of the highway from Novaliches to the Caloocan–San Jose del Monte boundary was called ''Novaliches-San Jose Road''. It also formed part of ''Highway 331''. It was later changed to the Don Tomas Susano Road, after the first officially recognized political leader of the district and municipal president of Caloocan during the

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. The name changed once more to Quirino Highway, right after the death of

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, who had resided and died at a nearby retreat house in Quezon City. It was the historical reversed widening of a highway, to narrow down for public use.

Route description

Quirino Highway starts from

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, near the

Balintawak Cloverleaf The Balintawak Interchange , also known as the Balintawak Cloverleaf, is a two-level cloverleaf interchange in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, which serves as the junction between Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) and the North Luzo ...

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. It then runs shortly in parallel to

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(NLEX) carrying one-way northbound traffic and turns northeast towards the northwestern part of

. It then meets the Old Novaliches and New Novaliches Flyovers, connecting it to NLEX. The highway turns right at Novaliches Proper, approaching the area of Fairview, where it becomes a one-way westbound highway between Belfast Street to Regalado Highway, adjacent to Robinsons Novaliches and

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. Its length from there to Araneta Avenue in Pangarap Village,

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is followed by the under-construction elevated

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line. The road ends its N127 designation as it enters north Caloocan. Crossing the Marilao River, it then enters the province of

San Jose del Monte San Jose del Monte, officially the City of San Jose del Monte (abbreviated as SJDM or CSJDM); ; ; ; ; ), is a component city in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 651,813 people, maki ...

, straddling along the mountainous terrain, and ends at the roundabout with Villarama Road and Ipo Road in Bigte, Norzagaray. Past the roundabout, it is continued by Ipo Road that leads to

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. The highway is also the alternate route for motorists en route to

Baliwag Baliwag, officially the City of Baliwag (; , Kapampangan: ''Lakanbalen ning Baliwag/Siudad ning Baliwag,'' also spelled as ''Baliuag''), is a component city in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a popul ...

and up to

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via Cagayan Valley Road.

Intersections

Landmarks

This is from southwest to northeast:

Quezon City

* Baesa Town Center * SM Hypermarket Novaliches * Quezon City University * Novaliches District Hospital * San Bartolome de Novaliches Parish * TV5 complex * SM City Novaliches * Nova Plaza Mall * Robinsons Novaliches *

* Ayala Malls Fairview Terraces * La Mesa Watershed

Caloocan

* St. Dominic Savio College * Metroplaza Mall * Alat San Jose Bridge (Marilao River)

San Jose del Monte

* SM City San Jose del Monte * College of Saint Anthony * San Jose del Monte City Sports Complex * City College of San Jose del Monte * Quirino Highwaty Rotonda

References

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