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| Route information | |
| Maintained byDepartment of Public Works and Highways | |
| Length | 12.1 km (7.5 mi) Including extension from Pasig to Taytay |
| Component highways |
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| Major junctions | |
| West end |  N184 (Bonny Serrano Avenue) at theQuezon City–San Juan boundary |
| Major intersections | |
| East end |  N60 (Corazon C. Aquino Avenue) / Taytay Diversion Road / L. Wood Street inTaytay |
| Location | |
| Country | Philippines |
| Regions | Metro Manila,Calabarzon |
| Provinces | Rizal |
| Major cities | San Juan,Mandaluyong,Quezon City,Pasig |
| Towns | Cainta,Taytay |
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Ortigas Avenue is a 12.1 km (7.5 mi)highway connecting easternMetro Manila and westernRizal in thePhilippines. It is one of the busiest highways in Metro Manila, serving as the main thoroughfare of the metro's east–west corridor, catering mainly to traffic to and from Rizal.
The western terminus of the highway is at the boundary ofSan Juan andQuezon City. The highway then traverses throughOrtigas Center and along the cities ofMandaluyong, Quezon City, andPasig, followed by the municipality ofCainta, and finally ending in the municipality ofTaytay.
The portion of Ortigas Avenue fromEDSA–Ortigas Interchange, Quezon City to the Buli Bridge at the Pasig–Cainta boundary is designated asRadial Road 5 (R-5).[1] The highway is also designated asNational Route 60 (N60) andNational Route 184 (N184) of thePhilippine highway network, respectively.
The highway is named after Filipino lawyer and businessman Don Francisco Emilio Barcinas Ortigas Sr. (1875–1935), popularly known as "Don Paco" or simply Francisco Ortigas. Ortigas is known for establishing a partnership with several businessmen (now Ortigas & Company) in 1931 to purchase the 4,033-hectare (9,970-acre)Hacienda de Mandaluyon from theAugustinian Order, which now spans the cities of San Juan, Mandaluyong, Pasig, and Quezon City.[2][3]
Ortigas Avenue cuts eastwards from the city boundary ofSan Juan andQuezon City inMetro Manila toAntipolo inRizal, passing through residential, industrial, and commercial areas, includingOrtigas Center, its namesake central business district. Its section fromBonny Serrano Avenue toEDSA forms part ofNational Route 184 (N184), a secondary national road under thePhilippine highway network. Meanwhile, the rest of the route east of EDSA forms part ofNational Route 60 (N60), a primary national road. Eastwards past theC5–Ortigas Interchange inPasig, the avenue is calledOrtigas Avenue Extension. Its section from Dr. Sixto Antonio Avenue in Pasig toFelix Avenue at theCainta Junction is officially known asPasig–Cainta Road and forms part of theManila East Road. From Cainta Junction to Kaytikling Rotunda inTaytay, it is alternatively known asCainta-Kayticling-Antipolo-Teresa-Morong Road.
Ortigas Avenue starts as a physical continuation ofGranada Street pastBonny Serrano Avenue at the boundary of San Juan and Quezon City. It then cuts throughGreenhills, San Juan and northeast ofWack Wack Golf and Country Club inMandaluyong. It crossesEDSA at theEDSA–Ortigas Interchange at the boundary of Mandaluyong and Quezon City, and marks the northern border ofOrtigas Center, before making a slight curve atMeralco Avenue. The avenue soon cuts throughUgong, enters Pasig, and crossesCircumferential Road 5 at theC5–Ortigas Interchange, where theBridgetowne development is located. It soon crosses theMarikina River andManggahan Floodway, entering the barangay of Rosario, still in Pasig. The avenue partially becomes asingle carriageway, changing back into adual carriageway, and then enters the province ofRizal atCainta, past SM City East Ortigas (formerly Ever Gotesco Ortigas).
It crosses Bonifacio andFelix Avenues at Cainta Junction. It then continues toTaytay and passes over the Kaytikling Rotunda with Taytay Diversion Road inTaytay, Rizal before continuing asManila East Road.
Most of the road from its intersection with Bonny Serrano Avenue to the Pasig–Cainta border has Class II paint-separated one-waybicycle lanes as part of theMetropolitan Bike Lane Network.[4] Additionally, the entire span of Ortigas Avenue from Bonny Serrano Avenue to Connecticut Street in San Juan hasbollards asprotection. However, these bollards are frequently damaged by motorists who intrude into the bicycle lanes, as the San Juan city government has struggled to regularly replace damaged bollards since its implementation in 2020.[5]
On August 18, 2023,San Juan MayorFrancis Zamora issued an advisory stating that the city has removed the bollards along the Ortigas Avenue bicycle lanes to be replaced withcat's eye markers. The advisory stated that this was done following a "thorough evaluation" conducted by theMetropolitan Manila Development Authority to "restore roads to their optimal capacity" due to "congestion and a reduction in road capacity".[6]
Ireka Construction Berhad, a Malaysian company, andEEI Corporation entered into a memorandum of understanding in 1996 to construct theelevated highway as part of a joint venture with thePhilippine National Construction Corporation (PNCC). This would have been the Philippines' first elevated road of this length. TheMetro Manila Skyway, which is being built on top of theSouth Luzon Expressway, is a similar project.[7]
In 1999, a joint venture of Strategic Alliance Development Corporation (STRADEC),Marubeni, andKumagai Gumi under thebuild-operate transfer (BOT) scheme proposed the construction of a 5.7-kilometer (3.5 mi) 6-lane Ortigas Expressway as a multi-story structure over the existing Ortigas Avenue Extension from E. Rodriguez (junction with C-5) to theCircumferential Road 6.[8] No new proposals were made since then.
| Province | City/Municipality | km[9] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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| Quezon City–San Juan boundary | 9 | 5.6 | Bonny Serrano Avenue | Traffic light intersection. Western terminus. Continues west asGranada Street. | |
| San Juan | Xavier Street | Restricted eastbound access for North Greenhills. Former westbound access for heavy traffic in theXavier School vicinity. | |||
| 9 | 5.6 | Madison Street | Traffic light intersection. Access for North Greenhills and theXavier School-ICA vicinity. | ||
| Roosevelt Street | Traffic light intersection. No left turn on both sides. Access for North Greenhills and West Greenhills. | ||||
| Club Filipino Drive | Traffic light intersection. Provides access to theGreenhills Shopping Center. | ||||
| 10 | 6.2 | Wilson Street | Traffic light intersection. Provides access to theGreenhills Shopping Center. | ||
| San Juan–Mandaluyong boundary | Connecticut Street | Traffic light intersection. Access for West Greenhills and theGreenhills Shopping Center. | |||
| Mandaluyong | La Salle Street | Former westbound access to Greenhills East. | |||
| Holy Cross Street | Former westbound access to Greenhills East. | ||||
| 11 | 6.8 | Notre Dame Street | Eastbound access only. Access for Wack-Wack Village. | ||
| Columbia Street | Eastbound access served by a U-turn slot. Access for Greenhills East. | ||||
| Mandaluyong–Quezon City boundary |  AH 26 (N1) (Epifanio de los Santos Avenue) | EDSA–Ortigas Interchange. Traffic light intersection below interchange. Route number change from N184 to N60. Start of R-5 concurrency. | |||
| Quezon City | Arcadia Avenue | Westbound access only. Access for Arcadia Village. | |||
| ADB Avenue | Eastbound access only. Traffic light intersection on the eastbound side. | ||||
| Zalameda Street | Westbound access only. Access for Corinthian Gardens. | ||||
| Quezon City–Pasig boundary | E. Abello Street | Westbound access only. | |||
| Pasig | 12.1 | 7.5 | F. Ortigas Jr. Road | Eastbound access only. | |
| Meralco Avenue | Traffic light intersection. | ||||
| Gardner Street | Westbound access only. Access for Meralco Sports Club. | ||||
| 13 | 8.1 | Royal Palm Street | Eastbound access only. Access for Valle Verde IV. | ||
| M. D. Camacho Road | Westbound access only. | ||||
| Lanuza Avenue | Traffic light intersection. | ||||
| Green Meadows Avenue | Traffic light intersection. | ||||
| Central Avenue | Eastbound access only. | ||||
| 14 | 8.7 |  N11 (Eulogio Rodriguez Jr. Avenue) | Traffic light intersection under interchange. | ||
| West Drive | Access from westbound service road only. | ||||
| Rosario Bridge overMarikina River | |||||
| Dr. Sixto Antonio Avenue / ROTC Street | Left turns from westbound provided by U-turn under Rosario Bridge. Start ofManila East Road. | ||||
| Eulogio 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 | ||
| 15.5 | 9.6 | West Bank Road | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance. U-turn location used for left turns from Sixto Antonio and C. Raymundo intersections. | ||
| Ortigas Bridge overManggahan Floodway | |||||
| East Bank Road | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance. | ||||
| President Quezon Street | Westbound access only. | ||||
| De Castro Avenue | Eastbound access only. | ||||
| Pearl Street | |||||
| Melbourne Street | |||||
| Countryside Avenue | |||||
| Monaco Street | |||||
| Riverside Drive | |||||
| Saint Joseph Drive | |||||
| Kamagong Sur Street | Restricted westbound access. | ||||
| 5th Avenue | |||||
| Buli Creek | Cainta-Buli Bridge | ||||
| Rizal | Cainta | Malinis Street | Westbound access only. | ||
| Gloria Extension | Eastbound access only. | ||||
| 18 | 11 |  N601 (Bonifacio Avenue) /Felix Avenue | Cainta Crossing. Traffic light intersection. End ofManila East Road (Rosario–Cainta Road) segment. | ||
| Brookside Drive | Unsignaled intersection. | ||||
| Sunrise Drive | |||||
| Marlo Drive | Eastbound access only. | ||||
| Sunset Drive / J.G. Garcia Sr. Street | Access from opposite directions accessible via U-turn slot. Former traffic light intersection. | ||||
| Robin Street | |||||
| 20 | 12 | Hunters ROTC Guerilla Street | |||
| Eagle Street | Westbound access only. | ||||
| Cainta–Taytay boundary | General A. Ricarte Street / Don Celso Tuason Street | Traffic light intersection. | |||
| Sampaloc Street | Eastbound access only. | ||||
| Santol Street | Eastbound access only. | ||||
| Tanguille Street | Eastbound access only. | ||||
| Suburban Drive | Unsignaled intersection | ||||
| Taytay | Dao Street | Eastbound access only. | |||
| Narra Street | |||||
| E. Rodriguez Avenue | Traffic light intersection. | ||||
| N. Pascual Street | Eastbound access only. | ||||
| Baltao Street | |||||
| Pearl Avenue | Eastbound access only. | ||||
| Palmera Avenue | |||||
| 21 | 13 | N60 (Corazon C. Aquino Avenue) / Taytay Diversion Road / L. Wood Street | Roundabout (Kaytiking Rotunda). Eastern terminus. End of N60 and R-5 designations. | ||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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