Lacson Avenue is the principal northwest–southeast artery located in Sampaloc district in northern

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. It is a 6-8 lane median divided avenue that runs approximately from Tayuman Street in Santa Cruz to

Nagtahan Interchange The Nagtahan Interchange, also known as the Nagtahan Flyover and the Mabini Flyover, is a three-level set of three intersecting flyovers in Manila, the Philippines which serves as the junction between Lacson Avenue, Nagtahan Street, Legarda St ...

. It is a component of Circumferential Road 2 of the Manila arterial road network and N140 of the Philippine highway network.

Route description

Travelling south, traffic emerges from Yuseco Street at the junction with Oroquieta Street in Santa Cruz. It then widens as it crosses Tayuman and Consuelo Streets across

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. From here, it becomes a component of both Circumferential Road 2 (C-2) and N140 highway. The road then intersects with Dimasalang Street and

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in Sampaloc, passing the

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campus. The southern end of Lacson lies at the

, where it continues south as Nagtahan Street towards

Nagtahan Bridge Mabini Bridge, formerly and still referred as Nagtahan Bridge, is a road bridge crossing the Pasig River between Nagtahan Street in Santa Mesa and Quirino Avenue in Paco to the west and Pandacan to the east. It was constructed between January to ...

and the districts of Pandacan, Paco, and Malate, where C-2 terminates, as

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History

The avenue was originally named Forbes Street or Governor Forbes Street, after William Cameron Forbes,

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of the Philippines, under whose administration the road was begun. It was extended south to meet ''Calle Nagtahan'' (Nagtahan Street) at the boundary of Sampaloc, San Miguel and Santa Mesa at the old Carriedo Rotonda, when the pontoon bridge of Nagtahan that connected it to Pandacan south of the Pasig River was built. Nagtahan Bridge was renamed to

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in 1967,Proclamation No. 234, s. 1967
published by the Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines; accessed October 16, 2013. while in 1971, Governor Forbes Street was renamed to Arsenio H. Lacson Street, after the former

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who served from 1952 to 1962.

Landmarks

These are ordered from its western end at Yuseco Street to its eastern end at

: *

* Andalucia Basketball Court *

Dangwa flower market Dangwa Flower Market, also known as the Bulaklakan ng Maynila (''Flower Market of Manila''), is a fresh flower market in the Sampaloc area of Manila, in the Philippines. The market is composed of several small individually-owned stalls and stre ...

* Hospital of the Infant Jesus (corner Laong Laan) * Mercury Drug (corner Laong Laan) *

* University of Santo Tomas Hospital * Dominican School of Manila * Sampaloc Fire Station * SM Savemore Nagtahan

References

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