General Luis Street is a two-to-four lane, major east-west thoroughfare situated in the cities of
Valenzuela Valenzuela may refer to:
Places
* Valenzuela, Paraguay
* Valenzuela, Metro Manila, Philippines
* Valenzuela, Spain
* Valenzuela de Calatrava, Spain
* Valenzuela, Louisiana
Other uses
* Valenzuela (surname), including a list of people with the n ...
, North
Caloocan
Caloocan, officially the City of Caloocan ( fil, Lungsod ng Caloocan; ), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in Metropolitan Manila, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 1,661,584 people making it the fourth-most ...
and
Quezon City
Quezon City (, ; fil, Lungsod Quezon ), also known as the City of Quezon and Q.C. (read in Filipino as Kyusi), is the List of cities in the Philippines, most populous city in the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a populatio ...
. Heavy traffic is usually expected when traversing this road due to concentration of tricycles and jeepneys, commercial establishments, warehouses and factories along and near the vicinity, although there have been multiple plans to alleviate traffic congestion such as obstruction removal, road widening and improvement, and construction of additional roads like the
Mindanao Avenue
Mindanao Avenue ( fil, Abenida Mindanao) is an eight-to-ten lane divided avenue connecting EDSA and NLEX and is a part of Circumferential Road 5 (C-5) in Metro Manila, Philippines. It is one of the three parallel roads that connects Tandang S ...
extension.
Name
Once called the Polo-Novaliches Road connecting the towns of
Novaliches
Novaliches is a place that forms the northern areas of Quezon City, and encompasses the whole area of North Caloocan.
Etymology
The name Novaliches came from the name of the small village of Novaliches in the town of Jérica, Spain. It was ...
(now mostly part of Quezon City) and Polo (now Valenzuela), this segment of the road was renamed after one of
Andrés Bonifacio
Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro (, ; November 30, 1863May 10, 1897) was a Filipino Freemason and revolutionary leader. He is often called "The Father of the Philippine Revolution", and considered one of the national heroes of the Philippines ...
's most trusted revolutionaries, General Luis Malinis, who was killed during the Battle of Novaliches on November 1896.
Its segment in Caloocan is also known as Kaybiga Road, apparently after the area of the same name that it traverses there.
Route description
The road starts at the intersection with Susano Road and Quirino Highway in Novaliches Proper ''(also known as Novaliches Bayan)'', passing through various residential subdivisions, into factories and warehouses. The road then crosses the border to Kaybiga, part of North Caloocan, after passing through Mendoza Compound. The road then slopes down and meets ITC Road, where it continues towards Valenzuela as
Bagbaguin Road.
Intersections
References
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Streets in Metro Manila