Ortigas Avenue

R-5 Ortigas Avenue
Looking west towards Ortigas Center from IPI
Route information
Maintained by Department of Public Works and Highways
Length	15.5 km (9.6 mi) Including extension from Pasig to Antipolo
Component highways	R-5 R-5 from Pasig to Taytay N60 from Quezon City to Antipolo N184 in San Juan and Mandaluyong
Major junctions
West end	N184 (Granada Street) / Bonny Serrano Avenue at the Quezon City–San Juan boundary
Major intersections	AH 26 (N1) (Epifanio de los Santos Avenue) N11 (Circumferential Road 5) (Bonifacio Avenue) / Felix Avenue
East end	(Sen. L. Sumulong Memorial Circle) / N60 (P. Oliveros Street) in Antipolo
Location
Major cities	San Juan, Mandaluyong, Quezon City, Pasig, Antipolo
Towns	Cainta, Taytay
Highway system
Roads in the Philippines Highways Expressways List

Ortigas Avenue is a 15.5 km (9.6 mi) highway running from eastern Metro Manila to western Rizal. 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 the traffic to and from Rizal.

The western terminus of the highway is at the boundary of San Juan and Quezon 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, and finally ending in the city of Antipolo.

The portion of Ortigas Avenue from Eulogio Rodriguez Jr. Avenue (C-5) in Pasig to Taytay Diversion Road in Taytay is designated as a component of Radial Road 5 (R-5). The highway is also designated as National Route 60 (N60) and National Route 184 (N184) of the Philippine highway network, respectively.

Route description[]

View of the avenue east towards Cainta from Rosario pedestrian overpass

Ortigas Avenue Extension eastward entering Antipolo. This segment is part of Corazon C. Aquino Avenue, which runs from Taytay to Morong.

Ortigas Avenue cuts eastwards from the city boundary of San Juan and Quezon City in Metro Manila to Antipolo in Rizal, passing through residential, industrial, and commercial areas, including Ortigas Center, its namesake central business district. Its section from Bonny Serrano Avenue to EDSA forms part of National Route 184 (N184), a secondary national road under the Philippine highway network. Meanwhile, the rest of the route east of EDSA forms part of National Route 60 (N60), a primary national road, except for the splitting westbound sections in Antipolo classified as tertiary national roads. These tertiary roads, from west to east, are officially known as Antipolo Diversion Road 1 and Antipolo Diversion Road 2, respectively. Eastwards past the C5–Ortigas Interchange in Pasig, the avenue is called Ortigas Avenue Extension. Its section from Dr. Sixto Antonio Avenue in Pasig to Felix Avenue at the Cainta Junction is officially known as Pasig–Cainta Road and forms part of the Manila East Road. From Cainta Junction to Kaytikling Rotunda in Taytay, it is alternatively known as Cainta-Kayticling-Antipolo-Teresa-Morong Road. Its remaining section eastwards from Kaytikling forms part of Corazon C. Aquino Avenue, formerly known as the Kay Tikling-Antipolo-Teresa-Morong National Road until 2018.^[1][2]

Ortigas Avenue starts as a physical continuation of Granada Street past Bonny Serrano Avenue at the boundary of San Juan and Quezon City. It then cuts through Greenhills, San Juan and northeast of Wack Wack Golf and Country Club in Mandaluyong. It crosses EDSA at the EDSA–Ortigas Interchange at the boundary of Mandaluyong and Quezon City, 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. It soon crosses Marikina River and Manggahan Floodway, partially becomes a single carriageway and changing back into a dual carriageway, and then enters the province of Rizal at Cainta, past SM City East Ortigas (formerly Ever Gotesco Ortigas).

It crosses Bonifacio and Felix Avenues at Cainta Junction. It then continues to Antipolo and passes over the Kaytikling Rotunda with Taytay Diversion Road in Taytay, Rizal. Past Kaytikling, it follows winding route to Antipolo, passing through some residential subdivisions before it ends at its intersection with L. Sumulong Memorial Circle and P. Oliveros Street fronting the Hamaka Park near the 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 and another component of Corazon C. Aquino Avenue that leads to Morong.

Intersections[]

Kaytikling Rotunda in Taytay, Rizal

Province	City/Municipality	km[2]	mi	Destinations	Notes
Quezon City–San Juan boundary		9	5.6	Bonny Serrano Avenue	Traffic light intersection. Continues west as Granada Street.
San Juan				Xavier Street	Former eastbound access for North Greenhills and former westbound access for heavy traffic in the Xavier School vicinity.
		9	5.6	Madison Street	Traffic light intersection. Access for North Greenhills and the Xavier School-ICA vicinity.
				Roosevelt Street	Traffic light intersection. Access for North Greenhills and West Greenhills.
				Club Filipino Drive	Traffic light intersection. Provides access to the Greenhills mixed-use development.
		10	6.2	Wilson Street	Traffic light intersection. Provides access to the Greenhills mixed-use development.
San Juan–Mandaluyong boundary				Connecticut Street	Traffic light intersection. Access for West Greenhills and the Greenhills mixed-use development.
Mandaluyong		11	6.8	Notre Dame Street.	Eastbound only. Access for Wack-Wack Village.
				Holy Cross Street.	Westbound only. Access for Greenhills East.
				Columbia Street.	Westbound access only. Access for Greenhills East.
Mandaluyong–Quezon City boundary				AH 26 (N1) (EDSA)	EDSA–Ortigas Interchange. Traffic light intersection below interchange. Route number change from N184 to N60.
Quezon City				Arcadia Avenue.	Westbound access only. Access for Arcadia Village.
				ADB Avenue	Traffic light intersection on the eastbound side.
				Zalameda Street	Westbound access only. Access for Corinthian Gardens.
Pasig				Meralco Avenue	Traffic light intersection.
		13	8.1	Royal Palm Street	Eastbound access only. Access for Valle Verde 4.
				Lanuza Avenue	Traffic light intersection.
				Green Meadows Avenue	Traffic light intersection.
		14	8.7	N11 (E. Rodriguez Jr. Avenue)	C5–Ortigas Interchange. Traffic light intersection under interchange. Western end of R-5 concurrency.
				Rosario Bridge over Marikina River
				Dr. Sixto Antonio Avenue	Left turns from westbound provided by U-turn under Rosario Bridge. Start of Manila East Road.
				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 over Manggahan Floodway
				East Bank Road	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance.
Buli Creek				Cainta-Buli Bridge
Rizal	Cainta	18	11	(Bonifacio Avenue) / Felix Avenue	Cainta Crossing. Traffic light intersection. End of Manila East Road (Rosario–Cainta Road) segment.
				Sunset Drive	Traffic light intersection
		20	12	Hunters ROTC Guerilla Street
	Cainta–Taytay boundary			General A. Ricarte Street / Don Celso Tuason Street	Traffic light intersection
	Taytay			E. Rodriguez Avenue	Traffic light intersection
		21	13	Taytay Diversion Road / L. Wood Street	Roundabout (Kaytiking Rotunda). Eastern end of R-5 concurrency.
	Antipolo			(Sen. L. Sumulong Memorial Circle) / N60 (P. Oliveros Street)	Eastern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Closed/former       Concurrency terminus       Incomplete access       Route transition

Name[]

The road 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".^[3][4][5] Its segment from Kaytikling Junction to its terminus in Antipolo is part of Corazon C. Aquino Avenue, named in honor of Corazon Aquino, the 11th President of the Philippines.^[1]

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