Metro Manila's Arterial Road Network

This list of roads in Metro Manila summarizes the major thoroughfares and the numbering system currently being implemented in Metro Manila, the Philippines.

Metro Manila's arterial road network comprises six circumferential roads and ten radial roads connecting the cities of Caloocan, Las Piñas, Makati, Malabon, Mandaluyong, Manila, Marikina, Muntinlupa, Navotas, Parañaque, Pasay, Pasig, Quezon City, San Juan, Taguig, and Valenzuela, and the municipality of Pateros.

Route classification

This list only covers roads that are listed as National Primary, National Secondary, or National Tertiary Roads on the Department of Public Works and Highways's Infrastructure Atlas, as well as the previous Circumferential and Radial Road system prior to 2014. These road classifications are defined as follows:
* National Primary Roads – Contiguous road sections extending that connect major cities. Primary roads make up the main trunk line or backbone of the National Road System.
* National Secondary Roads – Roads that directly connect major ports, major ferry terminals, major airports, tourist service centers, and major government infrastructure to National Primary Roads.

Both Primary and Secondary roads may be named as Bypass Roads or Diversion Roads, which divert pass-through traffic away from city or municipality business centers with affirmative feasibility studies, or roads that would connect or fill the gap between adjoining National roads.

* National Tertiary Roads – Other existing roads under the Department of Public Works and Highways that perform a local function.

Any roads not classified as National Primary, National Secondary, or National Tertiary may be classified as follows:

* Expressways – Limited-access roads, normally with interchanges that may include facilities for levying tolls for passage in an open or closed system.
* Provincial Roads – Roads that connect barangays through rural areas, major provincial government infrastructure, and/or cities and municipalities without traversing any National Roads.
* Municipal and City Roads – Roads within a poblacion or roads that connect Provincial and National Roads or provide inter-barangay connections to major Municipal and City Infrastructure without traversing Provincial Roads
* Barangay Roads – Any other public roads within a barangay not covered by other classifications.

Numbered routes

Circumferential and radial roads

The first road numbering system in the Philippines was adapted in 1940 by the administration of President Manuel Quezon, and was very much similar to U.S. Highway numbering system. Portions of it are 70 roads labeled Highway 1 to Highway 60. Some parts of the numbering system are Admiral Dewey Boulevard (Highway 1), Calle Manila (Highway 50) and 19 de Junio (Highway 54).

In 1945, the Metropolitan Thoroughfare Plan was submitted by Quezon City planners Louis Croft and Antonio Kayanan which proposed the laying of 10 radial roads, which purposes in conveying traffic in and out of the city of Manila to the surrounding cities and provinces, and the completion of six Circumferential Roads, that will act as beltways of the city, forming altogether a web-like arterial road system. The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is the government agency that deals with these projects.

The road numbering for radial roads are R-1 up to R-10. The radial roads never intersect one another and they do not intersect circumferential roads twice; hence they continue straight routes leading out from the city of Manila to the provinces. The numbering is arranged in a counter-clockwise pattern, wherein the southernmost is R-1 and the northernmost is R-10. Circumferential roads are numbered C-1 to C-6, the innermost beltway is C-1, while the outermost is C-6.

Radial roads

There are ten radial roads that serves the purpose of conveying traffic in and out of the city of Manila to the surrounding cities of the metropolis and to the provinces, numbered in a counter clockwise pattern. All radial roads starts at Kilometer Zero, demarked by a marble marcos across the Rizal Monument in Rizal Park along Roxas Boulevard.

Circumferential roads

There are six circumferential roads around the City of Manila that acts as beltways for the city. The first two runs inside the Manila city proper, while the next three runs outside the City of Manila. Another circumferential road, the C-6, will run outside Metro Manila and is under construction.

Highway network

The radial and circumferential road numbers are being supplanted by a new highway number system, which the Department of Public Works and Highways have laid out in 2014. The new system classifies the national roads or highways as national primary roads, national secondary roads, and national tertiary roads. Primary national roads are numbered with one to two-digit numbers. Secondary national roads are assigned three-digit numbers, with the first digit being the number of the principal national road of the region. Secondary national roads around Manila mostly connect to N1 and are numbered with 100-series numbers.

Expressway network

Expressways are assigned with numbers with an E prefix to avoid confusion with numbered national roads. Expressways are limited-access roads, with crossing traffic limited to overpasses, underpasses, and interchanges. Some existing expressways serving Metro Manila also form part of the latter's arterial road network (see the list above).

Other major roads

Many other streets in the metropolis are considered major roads. Only Dr. A. Santos Ave (Sucat Road or N63) is designated a primary national road that is not part of the arterial road system. Roads with 3-number designations are secondary national roads.

This list only covers roads that are listed as National Primary, National Secondary, or National Tertiary Roads on the Department of Public Works and Highways's Infrastructure Atlas.

Capital District

Eastern Manila District

Mandaluyong

Marikina

* Andres Bonifacio Avenue
* Bayan-Bayanan Avenue
* FVR Road/ C-5 Road, known as C5-Riverbanks Access Road
* General Ordoñez Street
* Gil Fernando Avenue, known as Angel Tuazon Avenue
* J. P. Rizal Street
* Marikina–Infanta Highway/ R-6 Road, known as Marcos Highway
* Shoe Avenue
* Sumulong Highway

Pasig

Quezon City

* Agham Road (East to North Avenue in Quezon City)
* Balete Drive (New Manila neighborhood of Quezon City)
* Baler Street (Project 7 neighborhood of Quezon City)
* Banawe Street (Santa Mesa Heights neighborhood of Quezon City)
* Batasan Road (Batasan Hills, Quezon City)
* Batasan-San Mateo Road (Batasan Road in Quezon City to San Mateo, Rizal)
* Broadway Avenue – (formerly ''Doña Juana Rodriguez''; New Manila neighborhood of Quezon City)
* Bonny Serrano Avenue (formerly called ''Santolan Road''; Katipunan Avenue to Ortigas Avenue) – N185
* Calle Industria (Pasig to C5)
* Cordillera Street (Santa Mesa Heights)
* D. Tuazon Street (Sgt. Rivera to E. Rodriguez, Sr. Avenue in Quezon City)
* Del Monte Avenue (San Francisco del Monte neighborhood of Quezon City)
* Don A. Roces Avenue (Quezon Avenue to Tomas Morato in Quezon City)
* Doña Hemady Avenue – (N. Domingo to E. Rodriguez, Sr. Ave.; New Manila neighborhood of Quezon City)
* East Avenue (Diliman neighborhood of Quezon City) – N174
* Eulogio Rodriguez Sr. Avenue (Welcome Rotunda to Cubao District of Quezon City)
* Gilmore Avenue (New Manila neighborhood of Quezon City)
* Greenmeadows Avenue (C5 to Ortigas Avenue)
* Kalayaan Avenue (Elliptical Road to Kamuning Road)
* Kamias Road (EDSA to Kalayaan Avenue)
* Kamuning Road (EDSA to Tomas Morato in Quezon City)
* Mayon Avenue (La Loma neighborhood of Quezon City)
* Mindanao Avenue (Regalado to Commonwealth Avenue; not to be confused with Mindanao Avenue of C-5 Road)
* Norberto S. Amoranto Avenue (formerly called ''Retiro''; G. Araneta Avenue to A. Maceda Avenue)
* North Avenue (Project 6 neighborhood of Quezon City) – N173
* Payatas Road (Commonwealth Avenue to Rodriguez, Rizal)
* Regalado Avenue (North Fairview District)
* Regalado Highway (Commonwealth Avenue to Quirino Highway in Fairview District, Quezon City)
* Roosevelt Avenue (Quezon Avenue to EDSA in Quezon City)
* Susano Road ( Novaliches)
* Timog Avenue (Barangay Laging Handa of Quezon City; ''Timog'' is Tagalog for "south") – N172
* Times Street (Barangay West Triangle; exclusive neighborhood of Quezon City)
* Tomas Morato Avenue (ABS-CBN Compound in Barangay South Triangle to E. Rodriguez, Sr. Avenue in Quezon City)
* Visayas Avenue ( Quezon Memorial Circle to Tandang Sora Avenue in Quezon City)
* West Avenue (Project 7 neighborhood of Quezon City) – N171
* White Plains Avenue (Temple Drive to EDSA)
* Zabarte Road (Quirino Highway to Caloocan)

San Juan

Northern Manila District (Camanava)

Caloocan

;South Caloocan
* 5th Avenue – N130
* 10th Avenue
* Paterio Aquino Avenue
* Samson Road – N120
;North Caloocan
* Bagumbong Road
* Camarin Road
* Deparo Road
* Susano Road (Quezon City Boundary to Zabarte Road)
* Zabarte Road

Malabon

* Governor Pascual Avenue
* Paterio Aquino Avenue

Navotas

* North Bay Boulevard

Valenzuela

* Karuhatan Road
* Maysan Road (NLEX to MacArthur Highway) – N118

Southern Manila District

Las Piñas

* Alabang–Zapote Road – N411
* CAA Road
* Daang Hari Road (Las Piñas-Bacoor in Cavite)
* Diego Cera Avenue –
* J. Aguilar Avenue (CAA-BF International, Las Piñas)
* Marcos Alvarez Avenue (Talon district of Las Piñas, Molino district of Bacoor, Cavite)
* Naga Road (Pulanglupa district of Las Piñas)

Makati

Muntinlupa

Parañaque

* Aseana Avenue
* Dr. A. Santos Avenue, or Sucat Road (Sucat district of Parañaque) – N63
* Doña Soledad Avenue (Better Living Subdivision, Parañaque)
* Elpidio Quirino Avenue
* Multinational Avenue
* NAIA Expressway – E6
* Ninoy Aquino Avenue – N195
* Pacific Avenue (Asiaworld City)
* Solaire Boulevard ( Entertainment City)

Pasay

* Andrews Avenue (includes Airport and Sales Roads; Roxas Boulevard to SLEX in Pasay- Taguig boundary in front of Terminal 3) – N192
* Arnaiz Avenue "formerly called Libertad Street/Pasay Road"
* Domestic Road – in front of Domestic Terminal (Airport Road or Andrews Avenue to NAIA Road in Pasay) – N193
* Harrison Avenue
* Macapagal Boulevard – The major road in Reclamation Area (Gil Puyat Avenue in Pasay to Pacific Avenue in Parañaque)
* Jose W. Diokno Boulevard – The main major highway along Manila Bay and SM Mall of Asia that serves as the freer and seaside route to the Macapagal stretch
* NAIA Expressway
* NAIA Road (Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard to NAIA – 2 in Pasay) – N194
* Ninoy Aquino Avenue – Location of NAIA – 1 (NAIA Road in Pasay to Dr. Santos Avenue in Parañaque) – N195
* Tramo Street (Aurora Boulevard) (Andrews Avenue to EDSA)

Pateros

* B. Morcilla Street (Pateros town proper)
* J.P. Rizal Avenue Extension (also Guadalupe-Pateros Road, going to Guadalupe, Makati)
* M. Almeda Street (from Gen. Luna Street, Taguig to R. Jabson Street, Pasig)
* P. Rosales Street (going to Tipas area, Taguig)

Taguig

* 5th Avenue (Bonifacio Global City)
* 8th Avenue (Bonifacio Global City)
* 11th Avenue (Bonifacio Global City)
* 26th Street (Bonifacio Global City)
* 32nd Street (Bonifacio Global City)
* Arca Boulevard (formerly DBP Avenue) (Arca South)
* Bagong Calzada Street
* Bayani Road
* Carlos P. Garcia Avenue/C-5
* General Luna Street
* General Santos Avenue
* Lawton Avenue
* Le Grande Avenue (Bonifacio Global City/McKinley West)
* Levi B. Mariano Avenue (Cayetano Boulevard)
* McKinley Parkway (Bonifacio Global City)
* McKinley Road (Bonifacio Global City to Makati)
* Maria Rodriguez Tinga Avenue (To C-5 Road)
* M.L. Quezon Street
* South Diversion Road/South Luzon Expressway
* University Parkway (Bonifacio Global City)
* Upper McKinley Road (Bonifacio Global City/McKinley Hill)

See also

* Road numbering
* List of eponymous streets in Metro Manila
*List of renamed streets in Metro Manila
* List of expressways in the Philippines
* Highways in the Philippines

References

External links

DPWH Philippines
official website

{{Metro Manila

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