Araneta City Bus Port

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Araneta City Bus Port
Araneta City Busport01.jpg
The bus port entrance from General Romulo Avenue
General information
Location160 General Romulo Avenue, Quezon City, Metro Manila
Philippines
Coordinates 14°37′15″N121°3′26″E / 14.62083°N 121.05722°E / 14.62083; 121.05722
Owned byAraneta City, Inc.
Operated byAraneta City, Inc.
Bus stands19 bays [1]
Bus operators
  • ALPS The Bus
  • German Espiritu Liner Inc.
  • German Espiritu Liner
  • Pangasinan Solid North Transit, Inc.
  • R.J. Express
  • UBE Express
ConnectionsTransfers to intercity and provincial buses, jeepneys, and UV Express
BSicon SUBWAY.svg Lrtalogo.svg Araneta Center-Cubao
BSicon SUBWAY.svg 3 Araneta Center-Cubao
Bus-logo.svg   51    53   Farmers Plaza
BSicon BUS2.svg QuezonCityBusService.png   1   Cubao
Future:
  E  Cubao
Construction
Structure typeSurface building
ParkingYes
Bicycle facilitiesYes
AccessibleYes
Other information
Website Official website
History
OpenedMarch 14, 2017 (2017-03-14) [2]
Previous namesAraneta Center Bus Port
Passengers
6,000-12,000 [1]
Location
Araneta City Bus Port

The Araneta City Bus Port (ACBP), also styled Araneta City Busport, is a bus station in Quezon City, Philippines. The bus station is currently one of two bus terminals in the Araneta City business district that link Metro Manila with the provinces in the country, including cities in the Luzon Archipelago via the Philippine Nautical Highway System. [2] [3]

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Built and completed in 2017 as the modern alternative to, and eventual replacement for, the adjacent Araneta City Bus Terminal, the oldest integrated bus terminal in Metro Manila, in operation since 1993, and is also a hub for buses servicing the Bicol Region. [4] [5] The busport is used by inter-city and provincial bus lines. [2] [6] The terminal is connected to the LRT Line 2 and MRT Line 3 by a network of elevated walkways and mall connections.

Location

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General Romulo Avenue alongside Ali Mall

The Araneta City Bus Port is located along General Romulo Avenue on the eastern side of Araneta City within the barangay of Socorro, Quezon City. It occupies the ground level of Manhattan Heights, a four-tower residential condominium complex that is part of the 5.7-hectare (14-acre), 18-tower highrise community developed by Megaworld Corporation called Manhattan Gardens. [7] The bus station is situated in the district of Cubao, a densely populated area north of Ortigas Center in east-central Metro Manila that has the highest density of bus terminals in the entire Manila metropolitan area. [8] It is directly across from Ali Mall and one block from the old Araneta bus station on Times Square Avenue.

History

The old Araneta bus terminal on Times Square Avenue Old Araneta Bus Terminal.jpg
The old Araneta bus terminal on Times Square Avenue

The Araneta busport sits on the original location of Metro Manila's first integrated terminal which opened in 1993. [9] In 2011, the Araneta Center Bus Station was relocated to the old Rustan's building located on Times Square Avenue built in 1974, after the department store transferred to its new home at the newly opened Gateway Mall in 2005, [9] [10] to make way for the construction of the Manhattan Heights, a 4-tower condominium development, as part of the Manhattan Gardens complex. The old bus terminal is expected to be torn down in the future to make way for the construction of the Manhattan Plaza, the final highrise development of the Manhattan Gardens project. [9]

The modern busport at Manhattan Heights was inaugurated as the Araneta Center Bus Port in March 2017 with Vice President Leni Robredo in attendance. [3] Following the issuance of the Metro Manila Council regulation prohibiting the operation of all provincial bus terminals along EDSA in order to ease traffic congestion in Manila's main artery, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority announced in May 2019 that the Araneta bus terminal shall be exempt from the ban. [11]

In March 2020, the terminal was closed due the COVID-19 pandemic, and served as an RT-PCR COVID-19 saliva testing site, in partnership with the Philippine Red Cross, while transport services were temporarily moved to the old Araneta City Bus Station, which has 23 bays. [12] The old bus terminal reopened in September 2020, and has limited its operations to Central Luzon, and has gradually expanded its services, while reviving previous routes within 2021 to 2022. [13] [14] [15] As of 2021, the Araneta Group have no announcement for the bus port's reopening, and is currently being utilized as a parking facility.

On October 25, 2022, the Araneta Group announced that all inter-city and provincial buses will be moved out from the Araneta City Bus Station, and will relocate their operations to the Araneta Bus Port. The day after the announcement, October 26, the Araneta City Bus Port reopened its operations, and services routes within areas around Metro Manila, Bulacan, Pampanga, Tabuk, Laguna, and Batangas. Presently, the Araneta City Bus Station is used to service modern jeepneys (BEEP) to and from select destinations in Quezon City, Pasig, and the Province of Rizal, under the Transport Equipment Aggregator and Management Inc. (1-TEAM), and other various transport cooperatives. [16] [17] [18]

Services

As of September 2024, the Araneta City Bus Port services the following routes:

Provincial

Bus

Intercity

Bus

Jeep & Shuttle Services

  • Araneta City, Inc. operates electric-powered city shuttles (e-shuttles, also known as Green & Go) to destinations within the Araneta City district from Ali Mall to the LRT 2 Cubao Station Concourse and the Gateway Mall 2 Southern Entrance. The Bus Port served as the shuttle's parking garage before reopening its services in November 2022.

Nearby Transport Services

Other transport terminals are located within walking distance from the Araneta Bus Port, which includes the following:

Suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic

The following bus companies moved out from the Araneta City Bus Station primarily due to declining ridership due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and caused bus companies to shift their operations within their own terminals within Cubao until 2023, or moved most of their operations to the Parañaque Integrated Terminal Exchange:

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