The Santa Rosa Integrated Terminal (SRIT), also known as the SM City Santa Rosa Transport Terminal, is a

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SM City Santa Rosa SM City Santa Rosa is a shopping mall owned and operated by SM Prime Holdings. It is located along Old National Highway (Manila South Road), Barangay Tagapo, Santa Rosa, Laguna, Philippines. Opened in 2006, it is the first SM Supermall in the pro ...

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, Laguna,

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. It is the second of three planned provincial intermodal terminals for the south of Manila under a public-private partnership arrangement. Opened on March 26, 2019, the terminal handles province-bound and incoming buses from

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and the

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, as well as other provincial buses plying the nautical highway in the south pending the completion of, and as an alternative to, the

Taguig Integrated Terminal Exchange The Taguig Integrated Terminal Exchange (TITX), originally conceptualized as the South Integrated Transport System (ITS-South), is a proposed intermodal transport terminal in Arca South, Taguig. It is primarily a bus terminal for buses going to ...

Location

The Santa Rosa Integrated Terminal is located on a former parking lot of

, a shopping mall on the

Manila South Road National Route 1 (N1) is a primary national route that forms part of the Philippine highway network, running from Luzon to Mindanao. Except for a gap in Metro Manila and ferry connections, the highway is generally continuous. Most sections of N ...

(National Highway) in Barangay Tagapo, adjacent to Santa Rosa's

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(Malusak) and close to the city's border with

Biñan Biñan (), officially the City of Biñan ( fil, Lungsod ng Biñan), is a 1st class component city in the province of Laguna, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 407,437 people. Biñan, also known as Biniang, has be ...

. It is directly connected to SM City Santa Rosa and is located just south of another shopping mall, Robinsons Santa Rosa. Nearby landmarks include the future Park Residences of SM Development Corporation, Robinsons Sta. Rosa, Metrogate Subdivision, Centennial Garden, New Sinai MDI Hospital, the

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, and Santa Rosa de Lima Parish Church. The terminal is about north of the older Santa Rosa bus terminal in Balibago. The nearest rail transit station, the Santa Rosa railway station, is about midway between these two terminals.

History

The proposal for a second integrated terminal in the southeast of Metro Manila was first submitted in October 2016 by Santa Rosa Mayor

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. A site on the Biñan–Santa Rosa Access Road was presented to Department of Transportation Secretary

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as an alternative to the

. The proposed site was east of the

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Greenfield City-Unilab (Mamplasan) Interchange, which would also be the terminus of the

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. It was modelled after an earlier contract signed in January 2016 for the South Integrated Transport System project also involving private investment. The Santa Rosa terminal is part of the

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plan to reduce traffic congestion in Metro Manila by taking some 3,000 to 4,000 southbound provincial buses off its busy streets. It was one of eleven sites in the peripheries of Metro Manila and adjacent suburbs that were submitted to the Department of Transportation for consideration for development. Santa Rosa is one of three immediate suburbs of Metro Manila in Laguna covered by city bus services and where bus operators are permitted to serve city routes including

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. The proposed terminal would allow for travellers to continue to their destination in Metro Manila through either the

or the

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via the

, as well as through other forms of public transportation such as the Metro Commuter railways,

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vans, and jeepneys. In March 2019, the Metro Manila Council approved MMDA Regulation No. 19-002 prohibiting the issuance or renewal of permits to all bus terminals on

, with the objective of permanently closing down all terminals along Manila's main thoroughfare and the relocation of all provincial buses to the designated bus stations in the north and south of the region starting June 2019.

Services

SRIT services the following routes:

Buses

*Bus Routes 33 and 34 of the Metro Manila Rationalized Bus Transit operate to and from

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(

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) and

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(

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), respectively. *ALPS The Bus, Inc. – operates provincial buses to and from the following destinations in

: Naga City,

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and

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, Malay,

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, and San Jose *

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– operates provincial bus service to and from SM City

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, Catarman,

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(Rawis),

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, and

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– operates provincial bus service to and from

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(Sawang),

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, Lidong, Naval,

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, and

Tabaco Tabaco, officially the City of Tabaco ( bcl, Siyudad kan Tabaco; fil, Lungsod ng Tabaco), is a 4th class component city in the province of Albay, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 140,961 people. It is one of t ...

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Jeepneys

*Traditional jeeps operate outside the station along the National Highway to

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, San Pedro,

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, and Calamba.

References

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