Samson Road is a major east–west street in

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 ...

, northern

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. The road is a continuation of

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(EDSA), linked to it via the

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Roundabout (Monumento) to form a single through route. These roads form part of

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(C-4) of the Metro Manila's arterial road network, National Route 120 of the

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, and

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of the Asian highway network. Samson Road is named for Apolonio Samson, a

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barrio lieutenant from Sitio Kangkong, Balintawak, Caloocan (now part of

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) who fought alongside

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during the Philippine Revolution.

Route

Samson Road, the main road in South Caloocan, officially begins at the

Circle (Monumento), the junction with

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and

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Extension, and ends at the junction with A. Mabini and Marcelo H. Del Pilar Streets. At its eastern terminus, it runs between Araneta Square Mall and

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Monumento (on the northwest corner of

and Samson Road) and SM Hypermarket Monumento (on the southwest corner of

and Samson) at Monumento. For much of its length, the road is generally commercial, with a mix of high-density residential zones as well as a few schools. Notable sites along the road are the

University of the East Caloocan The University of the East, Caloocan Extension Campus (''Pamantasan ng Silangan'' and commonly abbreviated as UE Caloocan or UE Cal) is a private higher education institution in Caloocan, Philippines. It is one of the three campuses of the Unive ...

(formerly UE Tech), SM Center Sangandaan, and the Caloocan railway station. It is also the home of the

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and the Philippine National Railways Hospital (Col. Salvador T. Villa Memorial Hospital). At its western terminus, it continues west as Gen. San Miguel Street.

History

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Samson Road, formerly called as Calle Samson, used to reach as far as near

Malabon Malabon, officially the City of Malabon ( fil, Lungsod ng Malabon), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 380,522 people. Located just nort ...

to the west and San Francisco del Monte in the present-day

to the east. It comprised the segments currently known as Gen. San Miguel Street,

(from Monumento to Balintawak), and apparently the Old Samson Road that reached Sitio Kangkong, where its namesake hailed from. Its section west of Mabini and Del Pilar, now Gen. San Miguel Street, used to be the right-of-way alignment of '' tranvias Manila–Malabon line until 1945. It became part of the Manila Circumferential Road (present-day EDSA; Highway 54 or Route 54) until the 1950s. It was later made part of

, when the proposal for the Metro Manila Arterial Road System was done in the late 1960s.

References

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