The list above provides an overview of major roads, avenues, boulevards, highways, expressways, and streets serving Manila and the wider Metro Manila metropolitan area. Rather than being limited to the City of Manila itself, the list covers roads extending across several highly urbanized cities, including Quezon City, Makati, Pasay, Pasig, Taguig, Parañaque, Muntinlupa, Caloocan, Mandaluyong, Marikina, Malabon, Navotas, and Valenzuela.
Major Roads Across Metro Manila
Metro Manila has a highly interconnected road network that links residential communities, commercial districts, business centers, government areas, ports, airports, and surrounding provinces. The roads in the list vary considerably in scale. Some are local streets serving individual districts, while others are major transportation corridors crossing several cities.
Among the most prominent roads are Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA), Commonwealth Avenue, Roxas Boulevard, Quezon Avenue, Ortigas Avenue, Aurora Boulevard, Taft Avenue, and Osmeña Highway. These routes form important connections between different parts of the metropolitan area. EDSA, for example, passes through Caloocan, Quezon City, San Juan, Mandaluyong, Makati, and Pasay.
Roads in Manila
The City of Manila itself contains many of the older and historically significant roads in the metropolitan road system. The list includes Abad Santos Avenue, Adriatico Street, Blumentritt Road, Bonifacio Drive, Del Pilar Street, Dimasalang Road, Escolta Street, España Boulevard, Juan Luna Street, Kalaw Avenue, Lacson Avenue, Legarda Street, Magsaysay Boulevard, Padre Burgos Avenue, Pedro Gil Street, Quezon Boulevard, Recto Avenue, Roxas Boulevard, Tayuman Street, United Nations Avenue, and several others.
These roads connect different districts of Manila and provide access to commercial, residential, institutional, historic, and waterfront areas. Several also continue beyond Manila’s administrative boundaries and connect with neighboring cities.
Roads in Quezon City
Quezon City accounts for a substantial portion of the roads in the list. Important routes include Commonwealth Avenue, Congressional Avenue, Del Monte Avenue, East Avenue, Elliptical Road, Kamuning Road, Katipunan Avenue, Mindanao Avenue, North Avenue, Quezon Avenue, Quirino Highway, Regalado Highway, Roosevelt Avenue, Tandang Sora Avenue, Timog Avenue, Tomas Morato Avenue, University Avenue, and West Avenue.
The concentration of major roads in Quezon City reflects its large geographical area and its role as a major residential, commercial, educational, and institutional center within Metro Manila.
Roads Serving Makati and Taguig
Makati and Taguig contain several important roads associated with major commercial and business districts. The list includes Ayala Avenue, Amorsolo Street, Chino Roces Avenue, Gil Puyat Avenue, Kalayaan Avenue, Makati Avenue, Paseo de Roxas, South Avenue, McKinley Road, and Carlos P. Garcia Avenue.
Several roads in this part of the metropolitan area connect major employment and commercial centers with surrounding residential communities. Some routes also cross administrative boundaries, illustrating how closely connected the road systems of Makati, Taguig, Mandaluyong, Pasig, and neighboring cities are.
Roads in Pasig and Mandaluyong
Pasig and Mandaluyong are connected by a number of major metropolitan routes. Examples in the list include ADB Avenue, Doña Julia Vargas Avenue, Meralco Avenue, Pasig Boulevard, Pioneer Street, San Miguel Avenue, Shaw Boulevard, and Ortigas Avenue.
These roads are particularly important for movement between the eastern and central portions of Metro Manila. Ortigas Avenue is notable in the list because it extends through several areas, including San Juan, Mandaluyong, Quezon City, and Pasig, before continuing toward Rizal province.
Roads in Southern Metro Manila
The southern portion of the metropolitan area is represented by roads serving Pasay, Parañaque, Las Piñas, and Muntinlupa. Important examples include Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard, NAIA Road, NAIA Expressway, Ninoy Aquino Avenue, Andrews Avenue, Alabang–Zapote Road, Daang Hari Road, Diego Cera Avenue, and Manila–Cavite Expressway.
The list also includes the South Luzon Expressway, which connects parts of Metro Manila with areas farther south, and the Muntinlupa–Cavite Expressway, which provides a connection between Muntinlupa and Cavite.
Northern Metro Manila and Major Highways
The northern part of the metropolitan area includes roads serving Caloocan, Malabon, Navotas, and Valenzuela, as well as routes connecting Metro Manila with neighboring provinces.
The list includes MacArthur Highway, North Luzon Expressway, North Luzon Expressway Harbor Link, North Bay Boulevard, Samson Road, Maysan Road, Governor Pascual Avenue, and Rizal Avenue.
Several of these routes extend beyond Metro Manila. For example, the North Luzon Expressway continues toward Bulacan and Pampanga, while MacArthur Highway extends through numerous cities and provinces farther north.
Expressways and Major Transportation Corridors
The list is not limited to conventional city streets. It also includes several expressways and elevated transportation corridors that play a broader regional role. These include the C5 South Link Expressway, Metro Manila Skyway, NAIA Expressway, North Luzon Expressway, North Luzon Expressway Harbor Link, South Luzon Expressway, and Muntinlupa–Cavite Expressway.
These routes demonstrate that the metropolitan road network operates at several levels. Local streets provide access within neighborhoods, major avenues connect districts and cities, while highways and expressways provide longer-distance connections between Metro Manila and surrounding provinces.
Roads That Cross Multiple Cities
One of the notable characteristics of the list is the number of roads that serve more than one city. EDSA, for example, is listed across six cities: Caloocan, Quezon City, San Juan, Mandaluyong, Makati, and Pasay.
Other examples include Ortigas Avenue, which connects several cities and continues toward Rizal, and Metro Manila Skyway, which is listed across eight Metro Manila cities.
This pattern illustrates the metropolitan nature of Manila’s transportation system. Road boundaries do not necessarily correspond to city boundaries; a single corridor may serve several local governments and connect communities with very different functions.
The road list provides a useful snapshot of the extensive transportation network serving Manila and Metro Manila. It includes small streets and local avenues alongside major boulevards, highways, and expressways. The locations range across the principal cities of the metropolitan region and, in several cases, extend into neighboring provinces such as Cavite, Laguna, Rizal, Bulacan, Pampanga, Quezon, and Batangas.
Taken together, the roads demonstrate the geographic interconnectedness of Metro Manila. Major corridors such as EDSA, Commonwealth Avenue, Ortigas Avenue, Roxas Boulevard, North Luzon Expressway, and South Luzon Expressway connect multiple districts and cities, while numerous smaller roads provide access within individual communities. The accompanying two-column table therefore serves as a practical reference for identifying the principal roads included in the source list and the cities or areas they serve.
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