Circumferential Roads
There are six (6) Circumferential Roads around the city of Manila that acts as beltways for the city. 2 are inside the City of Manila Proper, 3 are outside the City of Manila, and another circumferential road, the C-6, will run outside the NCR and is under construction.
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| Circumferential Road 1 |
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It starts from the South Harbor on the South Port District of Manila. It then continues to the Divisoria shopping district of Manila, passes through the Binondo and Quiapo districts, continues south and after passing R-6 becomes Mendiola. Mendiola houses the Malacañan Palace. It turns sharply right and becomes the J.P.Laurel Street, ending with a junction with the Ayala Boulevard. Ayala Boulevard ends in R-2 (Taft Avenue) and continues as the Finance Drive inside the Rizal Park. Finance Drive ends in the Padre Burgos Street, which officially ends in R-1. C-1 is the main thoroughfare of the Binondo and Quiapo districts of Manila, and the Malacañan Palace complex. The LRT-2 follows the route of C-1 from Claro M. Recto Avenue to Mendiola. | |
| Circumferential Road 2 |
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begins at R-10 in Tondo district, becomes Tayuman Street in the Sampaloc district, then continues on as Arsenio H. Lacson Avenue (formerly called Governor Forbes) after passing A. Mendoza St.(R-8) as it skirts the old San Lazaro Hippodrome (now SM City San Lazaro). It crosses R-7 (Espana Boulevard) and becomes the Nagtahan Boulevard after crossing R-6 in the Malate Interchange. Nagtahan Boulevard crosses the Nagtahan Bridge, the largest bridge of Pasig River, then becomes President Quirino Avenue, which continues on until it reaches R-1 (Roxas Boulevard), passing through the Paco and Malate districts. C-2 is the main thoroughfare of the Paco and Malate districts. | |
| Circumferential Road 3 |
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is a route that runs just outside the city limits of Manila. It runs eastward from R-10 in Navotas, passes through Caloocan City, becoming the 5th Avenue after crossing Rizal Avenue (R-9) and then as Sergeant Emilio Rivera Street after crossing A. Bonifacio (R-8) shortly after entering Quezon City. C-3 then turns southward along Gregorio Araneta Avenue in Quezon City. Gregorio Araneta Avenue (and C-3) ends at N. Domingo St. just after entering San Juan. The C-3 routing is resumed at the junction of South Avenue and Dr. Jose P. Rizal Street in Makati, then enters Ayala Avenue. After passing Buendia in Makati, the route will be transferred to Buendia Avenue. C-3 officially ends in R-1 but Buendia is extended to the Pasay Reclamation Area as the Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard. The C-3 missing link from Makati that will pass the proposed SM City McKinley at Barangay Carmona through Mandaluyong to San Juan is currently planned as an elevated expressway, the Skybridge, connecting Eulogio Rodriguez Sr. Boulevard, and Buendia, erected or elevated over the San Juan River until it meets the Skyway, which ends in Buendia. C-3 is the main thoroughfare of the Balintawak and Cubao districts of Quezon City, and of the Guadalupe Nuevo and Ayala Center districts in Makati. | |
| Circumferential Road 4 |
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C-4 officially begins at R-10 in Navotas, passes through Malabon as Letre Road, and enters Caloocan City as the Samson Road before becoming EDSA after crossing Rizal Avenue (R-9) at Monumento. EDSA is one of the widest roads (10-lanes) in the Philippines. EDSA utilizes a combination of grade-separated intersections, interchanges and U-turn slots along most of its length. C-4 officially ends at R-1 in Pasay City but the EDSA Extension, formerly known as P.Lovina, the southern part of EDSA, extends to the Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard, and ends at the rotonda of the SM Mall of Asia. The MRT-3 and LRT-1 Extension rail lines follows the route of C-4. EDSA passes through Caloocan City, Quezon City, Mandaluyong, Makati, and Pasay City. C-4 is the most important thoroughfare of the most important industrial centers in Manila, namely the Fort Bonifacio, Ortigas Center and the Ayala Center. C-4 is the most important road in Metro Manila. | |
| Circumferential Road 5 |
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Also utilizes grade separation and interchanges for many of its intersections. Currently, it officially starts at the Mindanao Avenue cloverleaf in NLEX. It then becomes the Congressional Avenue, passing over the Commonwealth Avenue via the Luzon Avenue Flyovers, ending in the 2-Lane Tandang Sora Avenue, which widens to 6-Lanes after crossing the Greenhills Drive. It passes through the University of the Philippines Diliman campus in Quezon City. Tandang Sora Avenue becomes the Katipunan Avenue after passing the C.P. Garcia Avenue in the UP Campus. C-5/Katipunan Avenue runs southward and passes in front of the Ateneo de Manila University and Miriam College. After crossing between Aurora Boulevard (R-6) (via a flyover) and Marcos Highway towards Marikina City, the routing is shifted onto Eulogio Rodriguez Jr. Avenue at the Santolan Road, or Bonny Serrano Avenue. It passes at Libis area of Quezon City, in which the Eastwood City Cyberpark is located. It continues southward into Pasig City. Just south of Pasig Boulevard (R-5) and just north of the Pasig River, C-5 is called Carlos P. Garcia Avenue and it passes through a small portion of Makati, then through Taguig. In Taguig, it passes by the Fort Bonifacio Global City, then turns westward and formally ends at its junction with R-3/South Luzon Expressway at the boundary between Taguig City and Pasay City. C-5 then continues south as the Moonwalk Access Road (formerly called E. Rodriguez), passing through Parañaque and ending in Quirino Avenue (R-2). C-5 may be extended southwards to the Coastal Road (R-1) to the South as the C-5 Road and to the F. E. Marcos Highway in the north as the Mariano Naval Street, eventually ending in the C-4 Road. C-5 is the main thoroughfare of Quezon City, Marikina, Pasig, Makati, Taguig and Parañaque, and the Eastwood City and Bonifacio Global City industrial centers. | |
| Circumferential Road 6 |
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Is a superhighway that is now under construction. It will act as a beltway of Metro Manila, so that buses and other transportation vehicles coming from the southern provinces to the northern provinces (and vice versa) need not pass through Metro Manila, thus lessening traffic in the metropolis. This will be named as Padre Jacinto Zamora Avenue. When built, C-6 will follow the proposed Metro Manila Tollway route eastward starting from its terminus at the North Luzon Expressway in Marilao in Bulacan province (expressway segment). C-6 will then pass through San Jose Del Monte City in Bulacan, turn southward and pass through Montalban, San Mateo, Antipolo City, Angono, and Taytay in Rizal province, finally entering Taguig. The Metro Manila Tollway will continue southwest to the South Luzon Expressway ending at the Bicutan interchange. C-6 will continue southward along the proposed Laguna de Bay Coastal Road running along the coast of the Laguna de Bay into Muntinlupa. C-6 will then turn westward, leaving the Laguna de Bay Coastal Road, pass through the elite Alabang district of Muntinlupa (passes South Luzon Expressway) and continue on to Cavite province (passes through Baccor, Imus, Kawit, Noveleta, and Cavite City), eventually connecting to R-1. |
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