Vito Cruz LRT Station is a station on the Manila LRT Yellow Line (LRT-1). Like all other LRT-1 stations, Vito Cruz station is above-ground. The station serves Malate in Manila and is the first station from Baclaran and the last station from North Avenue to lie within Manila city bounds. The station takes its name from the former Vito Cruz Street (present name Pablo Ocampo Sr. Street) which was named after a former alcalde mayor of Pasay ca.1871.
The station is the fifth station for trains headed to North Avenue and the eighteenth station for trains headed to Baclaran.
Vito Cruz station is notorious for its unusually high number of suicide attempts. As a result, the LRTA has imposed a "speed limit" on trains entering stations to deter the number of successful suicides.
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