Monumento LRT Station is a station on the Manila LRT Yellow Line (LRT-1). Like all other LRT-1 stations, Monumento terminal is above-ground. The station serves the southern portion of Caloocan City, and is named after the most famous landmark of Caloocan, the Monumento Circle, which houses the Bonifacio Monument, a famous monument to Andrés Bonifacio. The name Monumento itself is derived from the Spanish word for monument. Being one of four major stops in LRT-1, it is called Monumento Terminal.
Monumento terminal is located on Rizal Avenue in Barangay Grace Park East, Caloocan. It is the fifth station for trains headed to Baclaran, the eighteenth station for trains headed to North Avenue, and is one of the three LRT stations serving the city of Caloocan, the others being 5th Avenue LRT Station and the proposed Malvar LRT Station.
Today, Monumento terminal is now installing two elevators and escalators, a new entry/exit point and an footbridge over the guideway.
LRTA has added a platform at Monumento to go to Malvar, Balintawak, Roosevelt, and North Avenue. They will do the same at Baclaran once the proposed Cavite Extension Project has been approved and built.
Read more about Monumento LRT Station: Nearby Landmarks, Transportation Links, Station Layout
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“How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn’t love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.”
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