Tandang Sora Avenue
Tandang Sora Avenue is a major east-west thoroughfare bisecting Quezon City in Metro Manila, the Philippines. It is a two-to-six lane highway and municipal road that runs for 9.6 kilometers (6.0 mi) from its eastern terminus at Magsaysay Avenue in Pansol and U.P. Campus in Diliman to its western terminus at Quirino Highway in Baesa and Talipapa in Novaliches, crossing Barangays Culiat, New Era, Pasong Tamo, Tandang Sora, and Sangandaan.
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2018 photo of Tandang Sora Avenue just east of Commonwealth Avenue in Matandang Balara | |
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Maintained by Department of Public Works and Highways - Quezon City 1st District Engineering Office[1] and Metro Manila Development Authority | |
Length | 9.6 km (6.0 mi) |
Component highways | From Luzon Flyover to Magsaysay & Katipunan Avenues: |
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East end | |
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Major cities | Quezon City |
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The avenue's segment east of Commonwealth Avenue is a national secondary road with the route designation N129; it also forms part of the Circumferential Road 5 (C-5) network of the Metro Manila arterial road system. Its western segment in Tandang Sora and Culiat west of Commonwealth Avenue is a narrow municipal road classified as a national tertiary road.[2]
Tandang Sora Avenue was named after its location in the barangay of Tandang Sora. The barrio, in turn, was renamed from Talipapa in 1952 in honor of Filipina patriot Melchora Aquino.[3]
A flyover linking Tandang Sora Avenue with Luzon Avenue over Commonwealth Avenue in Culiat was built in 2009 as part of the C-5 Road network project.[4] In February 2019, the Department of Public Works and Highways announced the demolition of a flyover of Commonwealth Avenue at the Tandang Sora junction in New Era to make way for the construction of the Tandang Sora station of the Manila Metro Rail Transit System Line 7 (MRT-7).[5] A Metro Manila Subway station is also planned at the avenue's junction with Mindanao Avenue in Tandang Sora.[6]
Intersections
The entire route is located in Quezon City.
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Western terminus, traffic light intersection. Access to Balintawak and Manila to the south; Novaliches and San Jose del Monte to the north. Continues northwestward to Caloocan as Tullahan Road. | |||||
Marcel Drive | |||||
Creekside Drive | Gated road. | ||||
General Avenue | Alternate access to Mindanao and Congressional Avenue via Road 20. | ||||
Narra Street | |||||
Former traffic light intersection, opposite segments accessible via U-turn slots. Access to | |||||
J. Geronimo Drive | |||||
D. Geronimo Street | |||||
Venus Street | |||||
Banlat Road | |||||
Doña Sotera Street | |||||
Don Felipe Street | |||||
Visayas Avenue | Unsignaled intersection. Access to | ||||
San Miguel Road | |||||
Himlayan Road / S. Macaya Street | |||||
Philand Drive | |||||
Opposite segments accessible via U-turn slots. | |||||
Cenacle Drive | Alternate access to Visayas Avenue | ||||
Glenn Street | |||||
Allan Bean Street | |||||
Cassanova Drive | |||||
Union Avenue | |||||
Armstrong Street | |||||
San Ponciano Street | |||||
D. Reynaldo Street | |||||
Former traffic light intersection; closed to give way to the construction of MRT-7 Tandang Sora station. Access to opposite segments via U-turn slots or nearby roads. | |||||
Road 1 | |||||
Road 2 | |||||
Road 3 | |||||
Peace Valley Street | |||||
Start of C-5/N129 designation. Access to | |||||
Vic Valley Street | |||||
University Valley Street | |||||
Capitol Hills Drive | |||||
Unsignaled intersection. Continues south as Katipunan Avenue. Access to University of the Philippines - Diliman via Magsaysay Avenue; Pasig, Taguig and Parañaque via Katipunan Avenue. | |||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References
- "Quezon City 1st". Retrieved May 23, 2020.
- "2017 Road Data: National Capital Region". Department of Public Works and Highways. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
- "R.A. No. 727". The Corpus Juris. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
- Ong, Ghio; Flores, Helen (29 June 2009). "DPWH: Tandang Sora-Luzon Avenue flyover done by yearend". The Philippine Star. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
- Rey, Aika (14 February 2019). "Tandang Sora flyover in Quezon City to be demolished for MRT7". Rappler. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
- Vera, Ben O. de. "1st 3 Metro Manila subway stations seen operational by 2022". Retrieved 29 March 2019.