Batasan station is an under-construction Manila Metro Rail Transit (MRT) station situated on Line 7 located in

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. It is near the Sandiganbayan Centennial Building, Public Attorneys Office Building, Batasan TODA Terminal, the Commission on Audit Complex and the Batasan Pambansa Complex. It is the ninth station for trains headed towards the

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and the sixth station for trains headed to

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History

Batasan Station MRT-7 Construction Update 23-03-19

Batasan station is part of the

MRT Line 7 The Metro Rail Transit Line 7, also known as MRT Line 7 or MRT-7, is a rapid transit line under construction in the Philippines. When completed, the line will be long, with 14 stations, and the first line to have a third rail electrification. ...

, which was proposed initially in 2004. The line was supposed to begin its construction in 2005 with a target opening date in 2007. However, construction did not start until 2017, a decade after its target opening date. Groundbreaking of the station began on October 7, 2017, with a simple ceremony being held before the concrete pouring for the station's bored pile foundations. The official working name of the station during the design phase is Station 6. It is also known by another previous

working name A working title, which may be abbreviated and styled in trade publications after a putative title as (wt), also called a production title or a tentative title, is the temporary title of a product or project used during its development, usually ...

: ''South Batasan''. It was named so because it is located at the southern end of

Batasan Road Batasan Road (formerly and still known as IBP Road), is a six-to-ten lane circumferential highway located in the barangays of Batasan Hills, Bagong Silangan, Payatas, and Commonwealth, which are located all in Quezon City, Philippines. The ro ...

while

Manggahan station Manggahan station is an under-construction Manila Metro Rail Transit System, Metro Rail Transit (MRT) station located on the MRT Line 7 (MRT-7) system along Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City, Commonwealth Avenue in Barangay Commonwealth, Quezon Ci ...

was previously called as ''North Batasan''. , the project is 66.07% complete; the station's construction is to be finished by June of the same year.

Services

Batasan station is a part of the

, which runs from

Bulacan Bulacan, officially the Province of Bulacan ( tl, Lalawigan ng Bulacan), is a province in the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is the city of Malolos. Bulacan was established on August 15, 1578, and part of the Metr ...

up to North Avenue,

. It is the sixth northbound station from the

in Quezon City and the ninth southbound station from

. The station is served by jeepneys and bus lines, and the nearby Batasan TODA Station improves its access throughout

and nearby places.

References

External links

Proposed Batasan MRT Station
{{coord missing, Philippines Manila Metro Rail Transit System stations Railway stations under construction in the Philippines