Marcos Road

Marcos Road

Marcos Road near Smokey Mountain
Route information
Length: 6.2 km (3.9 mi)
Component
highways:
Major junctions
North end: Circumferential Road 4 in Navotas
  Lapu-Lapu Avenue
Circumferential Road 3
Capulong Street
Moriones Street
South end: Recto Avenue in San Nicolas
Highway system
Highways in the Philippines

Marcos Road, also known as President Ferdinand E. Marcos Highway and by its highway designation Radial Road 10 or R-10, is a 6-10 lane divided highway in northern Manila, Philippines connecting Recto Avenue in San Nicolas district with Circumferential Road 4 in Navotas in the north. The highway is an extension of Bonifacio Drive and Roxas Boulevard (Radial Road 1 or R-1) north of the Pasig River running north-south through the Manila North Port area serving the coastal Tondo and Navotas communities. It was named after the 10th President of the Philippines under whose administration the road was constructed.

History

Marcos Road was built on reclaimed land called Tondo Foreshoreland, reclaimed in the 1950s as part of a government plan to expand and improve port facilities in Manila. It soon became the resettlement site of thousands of urban poor families that turned the area into what was once Southeast Asia's largest squatter colony.[1] The road itself was constructed between 1976 and 1979 as part of the Manila Urban Development Project of the Marcos administration.[2]

Route

Housing developments at the former Smokey Mountain landfill

Marcos Road originates at the intersection with Recto Avenue as a continuation of Bonifacio Drive from Roxas Bridge (formerly Del Pan Bridge) in San Nicolas. It heads northwest toward Pier 4 of the Manila North Harbor before bending north into the Moriones and Don Bosco villages of Tondo. The road passes east of the entire Manila North Port terminal complex and leaves Barrio Magsaysay for Barrio Vitas past Capulong Street. Continuing north, it soon crosses over the Estero de Vitas (Vitas Creek) and enters the Balut area of Tondo where the old dumpsite of Smokey Mountain is located. North of Estero de Sunog Apog (Sunog Apog Creek), the road extends into the reclaimed fish port complex of Navotas running parallel to North Bay Boulevard. It terminates at Bangkulasi Bridge over the Bangkulasi Channel before the road turns east as Circumferential Road 4 (C-4) which heads to Malabon and South Caloocan.

Landmarks

Moriones Gate of the Manila North Harbor

References

  1. ↑ Case Study: Zoto and the twice-told story of Philippine community organizing published by the University of the Philippines Diliman; accessed 2013-12-18.
  2. ↑ Presidential Decree No. 931 published by The Lawphil Project; accessed 2013-12-18.
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Coordinates: 14°37′31″N 120°57′35″E / 14.62528°N 120.95972°E / 14.62528; 120.95972

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