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Taft Avenue | |||||||||||
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| Location | EDSA, San Roque Pasay, Metro Manila Philippines | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Department of Transportation | ||||||||||
| Operated by | Metro Rail Transit Corporation | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | MRT Line 3 | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 (1 island) | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections |  EDSA E Taft Avenue E Tramo | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Concourse: All entrances Platforms: All platforms | ||||||||||
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| Station code | TA | ||||||||||
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| Opened | July 20, 2000[1] | ||||||||||
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Taft Avenue station is the southern terminus of the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3) system located in Pasay.[2] It is situated at the intersection of Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA), one of Metro Manila's major thoroughfares, and Taft Avenue, usually referred to as Pasay Rotonda or EDSA-Taft. The station is named after Taft Avenue.
It is one of five stations on the line where passengers can catch a train going in the opposite direction without paying a new fare due to the station's layout. The other four stations are Araneta Center–Cubao, Shaw Boulevard, Boni, Buendia, and Ayala. Excluding Araneta Center–Cubao station, it is also one of four stations on the line with its concourse level located above the platform. However, crowd control measures at the station currently discourage passengers from switching trains at the platform level.
The station's location as a terminus has helped create many businesses in the area, from hotels and motels to restaurants and shops, with a good majority of them being a short walk from the station.
- ^ Papa, Alcuin (21 July 2000). "MRT-3 critics join Estrada in train ride". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
- ^ Lopez, NS; Rito, JE (January 2021). "Transport Emissions Modeling using Google Maps: An alternative approach for vehicle flow analysis". IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 1109 (1): 012069. Bibcode:2021MS&E.1109a2069R. doi:10.1088/1757-899x/1109/1/012069. S2CID 233791560.