Ortigas Avenue

Ortigas Avenue
Looking west towards Ortigas Center from IPI
Route information
Length	15.5 km (9.6 mi)
Component highways	R-5 R-5 from C-5 to Manila East Road N60 from EDSA to L. Sumulong Memorial Circle N184 from Santolan Road to EDSA
Major junctions
West end	Granada Street and Santolan Road in San Juan
	AH26 / N1 (Epifanio de los Santos Avenue) N11 (C-5 Road) Dr. Sixto Antonio Avenue Felix Avenue (Imelda Avenue) / N601 (Bonifacio Avenue) Manila East Road
East end	N600 (L. Sumulong Memorial Circle) in Antipolo
Location
Major cities	San Juan, Mandaluyong, Quezon City and Pasig in Metro Manila and Antipolo in Rizal
Towns	Cainta and Taytay in Rizal
Highway system
Roads in the Philippines Highways Expressways List

Ortigas Avenue is a 15.5 km highway traversing through the eastern part of Metro Manila and the western part of Rizal province. It is one of the busiest highways in Metro Manila.

The western terminus of the highway is at San Juan City. The highway then traverses through Ortigas Center and along the cities of Mandaluyong, Quezon City and Pasig, followed by the municipalities of Cainta and Taytay, ending in the city of Antipolo.

The portion of Ortigas Avenue from Eulogio Rodriguez Jr. Avenue (C-5) in Ugong to Taytay Diversion Road in Taytay is designated as a component of Radial Road 5 (R-5).

Route description

View of the avenue east towards Cainta from Rosario pedestrian overpass

Ortigas Avenue starts as a physical continuation of Granada Street past Bonny Serrano Avenue in Quezon City. It then passes Greenhills Shopping Center, San Juan and the back of Wack Wack Golf and Country Club. It crosses EDSA at the EDSA-Ortigas Interchange and runs through Ortigas Center, making a slight curve on Meralco Avenue. The avenue soon cuts through Ugong enters Pasig and crosses Circumferential Road 5 at the C5-Ortigas Interchange. Past C-5-Ortigas Interchange, it is called Ortigas Avenue Extension. It soon crosses Marikina River and Manggahan Floodway, partially becomes a single carriageway and changing back into a dual carriageway, and then enters Cainta, Rizal past SM City East Ortigas (formerly Ever Gotesco Ortigas). It crosses A. Bonifacio and Imelda Avenue at Cainta Junction, the original starting point of Manila East Road. Then it continues to Antipolo and passes over the Kaytikling Junction with Taytay Diversion Road to Manila East Road. Past Kaytikling, it follows a winding route to Antipolo, passing through some residential subdivisions before it ends at L. Sumulong Memorial Circle near Rizal Provincial Capitol. It then continues to downtown Antipolo as P. Oliveros Street, which ends near the Shrine of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage.

Intersections

Province	City/Municipality	km[1]	mi	Destinations	Notes
Quezon City				Bonny Serrano Avenue	Traffic light intersection. Continues west as Granada Avenue
San Juan				Wilson Street	Traffic light intersection.
				Connecticut Street	Traffic light intersection.
Quezon City				N1 (EDSA) / AH26	EDSA–Ortigas Interchange. Traffic light intersection below interchange.
				ADB Avenue	Traffic light intersection.
Pasig				Meralco Avenue	Traffic light intersection.
				Lanuza Street	Traffic light intersection.
				Greenmeadows Drive	Traffic light intersection.
				N11 (E. Rodriguez Jr. Avenue)	C−5–Ortigas Interchange. Traffic light intersection under interchange. Route number change from N184 to N60.
				Rosario Bridge (over Marikina River)
				Dr. Sixto Antonio Avenue	Left turns from westbound provided by U-turn under Rosario Bridge.
				Amang Rodriguez Avenue	Right-in, right out. Left turns via U-turn slots.
		15	9.3	C. Raymundo Avenue, Tramo Street	Left turns provided by U-turn locations.
				West Bank Road	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance. U-turn location used for left turns from Sixto Antonio and C. Raymundo intersections.
				Ortigas Bridge (over Manggahan Floodway)
				East Bank Road	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance.
Rizal	Cainta	18.375	11.418	N601 (Andres Bonifacio Avenue), Imelda Avenue	Cainta Crossing. Traffic light intersection.
				Sunset Drive	Traffic light intersection.
				ROTC Hunters Drive
				General A. Ricarte Street, Don Celso Tuason Street	Traffic light intersection.
	Taytay			E. Rodriguez Avenue	Traffic light intersection.
		24.820	15.422	Taytay Diversion Road, L. Wood Street
	Antipolo	31.669	19.678	Sen L. Sumulong Memorial Circle	Eastern terminus.
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Incomplete access       Route transition

Name

The street is named after the Prominent Lawyer and Businessman during the American Era, Don Francisco Emilio Barcinas Ortigas Sr. (1875–1935), who was popularly known as "Don Paco". ^[2][3][4]

References

See also

• List of roads in Metro Manila

Coordinates: 14°35′45″N 121°3′17″E / 14.59583°N 121.05472°E / 14.59583; 121.05472