Lawton West station

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 Lawton West 
Metro Manila Subway Line 9
Location Lawton Avenue cor. Chino Roces Avenue Ext. Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City
Owned by Department of Transportation
Line(s) Line 9
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
History
Opened2025 (planned)
Services
Preceding station  Metro Manila Subway  Following station
toward  Quirino Highway
Line 9
FTI
Terminus
Terminus
Out-of-system interchange
Preceding station  PNR  Following station
toward  Tutuban
Metro South Commuter
Transfer at: Nichols
FTI
toward  Calamba

Lawton West is a planned station on the Metro Manila Subway Line 9. The station would be built underground. The station itself is planned to be built on Bases Conversion and Development Authority property along the intersection of Chino Roces Avenue and Lawton Avenue in Brgy. Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City. [1]

Metro Manila Subway Line 9 Under construction subway line in Metro Manila.

Metro Manila Subway Line 9, formerly known as the Mega Manila Subway, is an underground rapid transit line currently under construction in Metro Manila, Philippines. The 36-kilometer (22 mi) line, which will run north–south between the cities of Quezon City, Pasig, Makati, Taguig and Pasay, will serve fifteen stations between the Quirino Highway and FTI stations. It will also serve as the country's second direct airport rail link, with a branch line to Ninoy Aquino International Airport. The line is designed to connect with the other urban rail transit services in the region, including Line 1, Line 3, and Line 7 at the North Avenue Common station, which is also currently under construction; the existing Line 2 and Metro Commuter Line; and the planned Line 5 and Line 8.

Bases Conversion and Development Authority

The Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) is a government-owned and controlled corporation under the Office of the President of the Philippines. It is a government instrumentality vested with corporate powers under Republic Act 7227, signed into law by former President Corazon C. Aquino on March 13, 1992. The BCDA Charter was as amended by RA 7917 in 1995, and further amended by RA 9400 in 2007.

Chino Roces Avenue road in the Philippines

Chino Roces Avenue, formerly known as Pasong Tamo, is a prominent north-south road in the cities of Makati and Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines It runs for approximately 5.8 kilometers from Olympia and Tejeros to Fort Bonifacio. The avenue is named for Joaquin "Chino" Roces, journalist and founder of The Manila Times and ABC.

The station is one of two stations to be built along Lawton Avenue, named after United States Army Major General Henry Ware Lawton, the highest ranking American officer killed in action during the Philippine-American War.

Lawton Avenue road in the Philippines

Lawton Avenue is the main road in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig southeastern Metro Manila, Philippines. It follows a part of the alignment of the old Nichols route running roughly southwest to northeast from the interchange with South Luzon Expressway and the Manila Skyway to Fifth Avenue and the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial. It was named after Henry Ware Lawton, US Army general during the Philippine-American War.

United States Army Land warfare branch of the United States Armed Forces

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution. As the oldest and most senior branch of the U.S. military in order of precedence, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which was formed to fight the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)—before the United States of America was established as a country. After the Revolutionary War, the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784 to replace the disbanded Continental Army. The United States Army considers itself descended from the Continental Army, and dates its institutional inception from the origin of that armed force in 1775.

Henry Ware Lawton United States Army Medal of Honor recipient

Henry Ware Lawton was a highly respected U.S. Army officer who served with distinction in the Civil War, the Apache Wars, the Spanish–American War and was the only U.S. general officer to be killed during the Philippine–American War. The city of Lawton, Oklahoma, takes its name from General Lawton, as does a borough in the city of Havana, Cuba. Liwasang Bonifacio in downtown Manila was formerly named Plaza Lawton in his honor.

Lawton West is planned to be the last station before the line splits in two, with the main line heading south towards FTI, while a branch line goes west to NAIA Terminal 3.

The station is also planned to be connected to the PNR Nichols Station.

Nichols railway station

Nichols station is a station of the South Main Line ("Southrail") of the Philippine National Railways. Like all PNR stations, this station is at grade. It is located on the East Service Road of the South Luzon Expressway in Taguig, on the foot of the Sales Interchange, and takes its name from one of the area's popular nicknames, Nichols, which is also the former name of Villamor Airbase. It was opened for revenue service on March 25, 2010.

The station is slated to open in 2025, when the line commences full operations [2]

Reference

  1. "6 subway stations to rise on gov't properties". Philippine News Agency. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  2. Vera, Ben O. de. "1st 3 Metro Manila subway stations seen operational by 2022" . Retrieved 15 March 2019.

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