Francis Burton Harrison Avenue, more commonly known as F.B. Harrison Avenue or simply Harrison Avenue (formerly F.B. Harrison Street or Harrison Street), is a major north-south collector road in

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, western

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, Philippines. It is a four-lane undivided arterial running parallel to

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to the west and

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to the east, from Pasay's border with

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district in the north to

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in Parañaque in the south. The avenue is named for U.S.

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Street description

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Harrison Avenue has a right-of-way width of approximately . It is a public transportation or medium-occupancy-vehicle corridor which is frequented by intra-metropolitan

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and mega-taxis. This condition gives Harrison Avenue its relatively slow-moving, congested and highly pedestrian character.

History

Harrison Avenue forms part of an old Spanish coastal highway that linked the Province of Manila to

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and other southern provinces. It was called Calle Real or Camino Real (Spanish for "royal street") which spanned from

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. At present, only the

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and Muntinlupa section is called Calle Real or Real Street as an alternative name for the road. The Pasay portion is renamed Harrison Avenue while those of the

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and Parañaque have been renamed to

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and

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, respectively. It was also one of the right-of-way alignments of tranvía that existed until 1945.

References

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