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Quirino Highway | ||||
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Route information | ||||
Maintained by the Department of Public Works and Highways | ||||
Component highways |
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Major junctions | ||||
South end | AH 26 (N1) (EDSA) in Quezon City | |||
North end | Villarama Road / Ipo Road in Norzagaray, Bulacan | |||
Location | ||||
Country | Philippines | |||
Major cities | Quezon City, Caloocan, San Jose del Monte | |||
Towns | Norzagaray | |||
Highway system | ||||
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The Quirino Highway, formerly called the El Quirino Express Road[ citation needed ] or Ipo Road, is a four-to-eight lane, secondary highway that connects Quezon City to the municipality of Norzagaray in Bulacan, Philippines. The road is designated as National Route 127 (N127) of the Philippine highway network within the city bounds of Quezon City, Radial Road 7 (R-7), [1] and a spur of Radial Road 8 (R-8) of Metro Manila's arterial road network.
Prior to the construction of the Balintawak Interchange and North Diversion Road, it forms an old road that linked the city of Manila with Novaliches, previously called as the Manila-del Monte Garay Road,[ citation needed ]Manila-Novaliches Road, [2] Bonifacio-Manila Road, [3] Balintawak-Novaliches Road, [4] and Highway 52. [5] [6] [7] The portion of the road south of EDSA is presently known as A. Bonifacio Avenue. Circa 1955, the section of the highway from Novaliches to the Caloocan–San Jose del Monte boundary was called Novaliches-San Jose Road. [8]
It was later changed to the Don Tomas Susano Road, after the first officially recognized political leader of the district and municipal president of Caloocan during the American occupation of the Philippines. The name changed once more to Quirino Highway, right after the death of Philippine President Elpidio Quirino, who had resided and died at a nearby retreat house in Quezon City. It was the historical reversed widening of a highway, to narrow down for public use.
Quirino Highway starts from Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, near the Balintawak Cloverleaf in Quezon City. It then runs shortly in parallel to North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) carrying one-way northbound traffic and turns northeast towards the northwestern part of Quezon City. It then meets the Old Novaliches and New Novaliches Flyovers, connecting it to NLEX. The highway turns right at Novaliches Proper, approaching the area of Fairview, where it becomes a one-way westbound highway between Belfast Street to Regalado Highway, adjacent to Robinsons Novaliches and SM City Fairview. Its length from there to Araneta Avenue in Pangarap Village, Caloocan is followed by the under-construction elevated MRT Line 7 line. The road ends its N127 designation as it enters north Caloocan. Crossing the Marilao River, it then enters the province of Bulacan at San Jose del Monte, straddling along the mountainous terrain, and ends at the roundabout with Villarama Road and Ipo Road in Bigte, Norzagaray. Past the roundabout, it is continued by Ipo Road that leads to Ipo Dam.
The highway is also the alternate route for motorists en route to Baliwag and up to Cagayan Valley via Cagayan Valley Road.
Intersections are numbered by kilometer post, with Rizal Park in Manila designated as kilometer zero.
Province | City/Municipality | km [1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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Quezon City | AH 26 (N1) (EDSA) | Southern terminus; accessible from EDSA northbound. | |||
East Service Road | Northbound entrance only. | ||||
10 | 6.2 | AH 26 (E1) / N160 (NLEX) – Manila | Access to NLEX southbound and West Service Road and entry from NLEX northbound. | ||
Santa Quiteria Street / Howmart Road — Reparo | |||||
Mendez Road / Caroline Street — Bahay Toro | |||||
Tandang Sora Avenue / Tullahan Road — Santa Quiteria, Bahay Toro, Culiat | |||||
N128 (Mindanao Avenue) – Kaybiga, Valenzuela, North Triangle | Access to C-5 and E5 (NLEX Mindanao Avenue Link) | ||||
King Alexander Street, Don Julio Gregorio Street (Sauyo Road) — Sauyo, Fairview, Novaliches Proper | |||||
E5 (NLEX Segment 8.2) – Valenzuela, Malabon, Bulacan | Future Quirino Highway Interchange of NLEX Segment 8.2 (NLEX–C-5 / NLEX Citi Link) [9] | ||||
Pagkabuhay Street | Access to Bagbag Cemetery. | ||||
Pablo Dela Cruz Street — Novaliches Proper, San Bartolome | Access to Holy Cross Memorial Park. | ||||
Forest Hill Drive — Santa Monica, Fairview, Lagro | |||||
Sarmiento Street | Traffic light intersection. Vehicles approaching Novaliches Proper are not allowed to turn left. | ||||
N118 (General Luis Street) / Susano Road – Camarin, Caloocan, Valenzuela | Novaliches Proper. | ||||
F. Salvador Street — Fairview, Lagro, Diliman | Jordan Plains Subdivision Phase 1 & 2. A major backroad to Commonwealth Avenue before its extension to Quirino Highway. | ||||
N170 (Commonwealth Avenue) – Diliman, Quezon Memorial Circle, San Mateo | Change from R-8 (spur) to R-7. | ||||
Zabarte Road — Camarin, Bagong Silang | |||||
Belfast Avenue | Eastbound vehicles are shifted here as Quirino Highway becomes one-way westbound. Also accessible westbound. Provides access to Mindanao Avenue. | ||||
Maligaya Drive — Camarin, Bagong Silang | Access to Fairview Terraces and Robinsons Novaliches. | ||||
Regalado Highway | Shift from one-way westbound to two-way, four-lane highway. | ||||
Ascension Avenue — Greater Lagro | |||||
St. James Street | Access to Sacred Heart Village in Caloocan. | ||||
Esperanza Street | Access to Our Lady of Fatima University Quezon City. | ||||
La Mesa Road | Controlled access road leading to La Mesa Dam and Reservoir. | ||||
Quezon City – Caloocan boundary | Quezon City 1st District Engineering Office–Metro Manila 2nd District Engineering Office highway boundary (Route change from N127 to unnumbered route) | ||||
Caloocan | Makabud Street — Amparo | ||||
Malanting Street — Amparo | |||||
Crispulo Street — Camarin, Amparo | |||||
Araneta Avenue | Access to Pangarap Village and Ciudad Real | ||||
28 | 17 | Malaria Road — Tala | |||
Marilao River | 28.892– 29.928 | 17.953– 18.596 | Alat–San Jose Bridge | ||
Bulacan | San Jose del Monte | Santa Maria–Tungkong Mangga Road — Santa Maria, Bocaue, Marilao | |||
Skyline Road | |||||
Francisco Avenue | Access to Francisco Homes Subdivision | ||||
Kaypian Road | Access to Bulacan State University and San Jose del Monte city proper | ||||
Igay Road — Rodriguez | |||||
Del Monte Road | |||||
Dr. Eduardo V. Roquero Sr. Avenue | Access to the Sapang Palay Resettlement Project | ||||
Norzagaray | Villarama Road / Ipo Road — Norzagaray, Angat | Northern terminus; roundabout intersection. | |||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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