Gregorio Araneta Avenue

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Gregorio Araneta Avenue
Gregorio Araneta Avenue in 2014, before the construction of the Skyway Stage 3.
Route information
Length 5.3 km (3.3 mi)
Component
highways
Major junctions
North end Sergeant Rivera Street in San Francisco del Monte, Quezon City
 
South end Nicanor Domingo Street in San Juan
Location
Major cities Quezon City, Manila
Highway system

Roads in the Philippines

Gregorio Araneta Avenue with the under-construction Stage 3 segment of the Metro Manila Skyway.

Gregorio Araneta Avenue is a suburban arterial road in the Santa Mesa Heights area of Quezon City, northeastern Metro Manila, Philippines. It is a 6-8 lane divided avenue designated as part of Circumferential Road 3 (C-3) which travels from Sergeant Rivera Street, at its north end in Balintawak, and meets Nicanor Domingo Street in the south in San Juan near the border with Santa Mesa, City of Manila. En route, it intersects with Del Monte Avenue, Quezon Avenue, Eulogio Rodriguez Sr. Avenue and Magsaysay-Aurora Boulevard passing through the villages of Manresa, Masambong, Sienna, Santo Domingo, Talayan, Tatalon, Doña Imelda, Santol, Barangay 596 (Santa Mesa) and Rivera (San Juan).

The avenue lies in a flood-prone zone in close proximity to the San Francisco del Monte and San Juan Rivers. It was named after lawyer and landowner Gregorio S. Araneta who owned the Santa Mesa Heights Subdivision on which the avenue was built.[1]

A man-made waterway median runs through the middle of the road, that momentarily terminates in the Del Monte Avenue intersection, and continues immediately, terminating before the Quezon Avenue intersection. As a result of the Skyway Stage 3 project, parts of the waterway median will be converted into a closed culvert and will become a part of the passable road.

The Manila Skyway Stage 3 will traverse the entire length of the road, starting from Sergeant Rivera Street.

Funeral row

Gregorio Araneta Avenue is best known as the location of some of the biggest funeral parlors in the metropolis. These are the Arlington Memorial Chapels, La Funeraria Paz, Ascension Columbary, Cosmopolitan, Nacional Memorial Homes, and the Sanctuarium (formerly Capitol Memorial). The oldest is Funeraria Nacional which moved to Gregorio Araneta from its old address in downtown Avenida Rizal in 1968. It was followed by La Funeraria Paz in the 1970s and Arlington, which converted the old Thomas Jefferson Library on the avenue into a funeral facility, in 1985.[2]

Automated Trash Rake

In 2014, the Department of Science and Technology built an automated garbage rake in the intersection of Araneta Avenue and Mauban Street, functioning as a cleaning facility for the river, in response to the perennial flooding and garbage problems in the area. Garbage trucks regularly collected garbages that were captured from the river, as well as those dumped nearby.[3]

Intersections

ProvinceCity/MunicipalitykmmiDestinationsNotes
Quezon City N160 (Bonifacio Avenue)Continues towards Caloocan as Sgt. Rivera Avenue/C-3 Road.
Del Monte AvenueTraffic light intersection. Serves Siena College
N170 (Quezon Avenue)Traffic light intersection. No left turns formerly, until alterations due to the Skyway Stage 3 construction made it necessary; the U-Turn slots far ahead brought more traffic than what it was built to avert.
E. Rodriguez Sr. AvenueTraffic light intersection, No left turns and no U-turns; U-Turn slot located ahead.
Quezon City–Manila boundary N180 (Magsaysay Boulevard/Aurora Boulevard)No left turns from Magsaysay Boulevard eastbound (instead served by a U-Turn slot). Serves SM City Santa Mesa and Central Colleges of the Philippines
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References

  1. ↑ History and Important Events of Sta. Teresita Parish published by the National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in Quezon City; accessed 2013-12-19.
  2. ↑ QC's Araneta Avenue: Showcase strip for the Filipino 'burol' published by the Philippine Daily Inquirer; accessed 2013-12-19.
  3. ↑ http://quezoncity.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1501:dost-turns-over-automatic-trash-rake-facility-to-qc-lgu&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=362

Coordinates: 14°36′54″N 121°1′0″E / 14.61500°N 121.01667°E / 14.61500; 121.01667

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