Circumferential Road 3

C-3 Road is the portion of C-3 from R-10 in Navotas to Baltazar Street, past the Philippine National Railways railroad crossing, in Caloocan.

5th Avenue

5th Avenue is the portion of the C-3 road which is a six-lane, two-way traffic roadway through Caloocan from Baltazar Street to A. Bonifacio Avenue in Quezon City. Formerly, this roadway was a two lane, one-way traffic roadway eastwards prior to the expansion that aimed to accommodate and connect C-3 Road (East) and C-3 Road (West) to both East and West bound traffic

After crossing A. Bonifacio Avenue, C-3 becomes Sgt. Rivera Avenue. Sgt. Rivera Avenue is a main road in Quezon City with 6 lanes. It becomes G. Araneta after turning southwards after its intersection with Santo Domingo Avenue. Oftentimes the names G. Araneta and Sgt. Rivera are interchangeably used by people in this segment of the C-3.

C-3 becomes G. Araneta Avenue after turning southwards after its intersection with Sto. Domingo Avenue up to where it was cut short in San Juan via the N. Domingo Street. This area of the C-3 is well known for its big funeral parlors such as Arlington and La Funeraria Paz, SM City Sta. Mesa and the creek from Toctokan Street up to Quezon Avenue which is a flood prone zone due to overflowing during rainy season and it being one of the lowest area in the C-3 (the other is the area where it crosses with Aurora Boulevard).

The Metro Manila Skybridge is a proposed 6-lane elevated expressway that will form the missing link of the C-3 connecting G. Araneta Avenue in Quezon City to South Avenue in Makati with several interchanges.[1]

The proposed Skybridge project above the San Juan River is now cancelled due to the Skyway Stage 3 project occupying the portion of the river located at the boundaries of Manila, Mandaluyong, San Juan and Quezon City.

South Avenue

C-3 continues in Makati as South Avenue. It is a major north-south thoroughfare that runs from J.P. Rizal Avenue to Metropolitan Avenue. It passes through the western boundary of the Manila South Cemetery. After passing through Metropolitan Avenue, C-3 becomes as Ayala Avenue Extension.

Ayala Avenue Extension is the northern extension of Ayala Avenue, a major thoroughfare in Makati that passes through the heart of the Makati Central Business District, the economic and financial hub of the Philippines, towards Metropolitan Avenue. It begins as a continuation of South Avenue at Metropolitan Avenue, and ends at Gil Puyat Avenue, where the extension continues south as Ayala Avenue towards EDSA and McKinley Road.

Gil Puyat Avenue

At the junction between Ayala Avenue, C-3 continues by turning west to Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue up to the Roxas Boulevard. Along with South Avenue and Ayala Avenue, it passes through the area of the Philippines' Premier Central Business District one of which is the Ayala Center in Makati. SLEX can be accessed through its junction with it. And also it passes through several provincial bus stations in the junction with Taft Avenue.

The Sen. Gil Puyat extension from Roxas Boulevard to Jose Diokno Boulevard in Bay City in Pasay are no longer parts of C-3. C-3, like the other completed circumferential roads in Manila and in Metro Manila (C-1, C-2, and C-4), starts in R-10 and officially ends in R-1.