Tandang Sora Avenue


C-5
Tandang Sora Avenue
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2018 photo of Tandang Sora Avenue just east of Commonwealth Avenue in Matandang Balara
Route information
Maintained by Department of Public Works and Highways - Quezon City 1st District Engineering Office[1] and Metropolitan Manila Development Authority
Length9.6 km (6.0 mi)
Component
highways		From Commonwealth to Magsaysay & Katipunan Avenues:
Major junctions
West end N127 (Quirino Highway) and Tullahan Road in Talipapa and Baesa
Major intersections
East end N129 (Katipunan Avenue) and Magsaysay Avenue in U.P. Campus and Pansol
Location
CountryPhilippines
Major citiesQuezon City
Highway system
  • Roads in the Philippines

Tandang Sora Avenue (formerly known as Banlat Road)[2] is a major east-west thoroughfare bisecting Quezon City in Metro Manila, Philippines. It is a two-to-six-lane highway and municipal road that runs for 9.6 kilometers (6.0 mi) from its eastern terminus at Magsaysay Avenue in Pansol and U.P. Campus in Diliman to its western terminus at Quirino Highway in Baesa and Talipapa in Novaliches, crossing Barangays Culiat, New Era, Pasong Tamo, Tandang Sora, and Sangandaan.

The avenue's segment east of Commonwealth Avenue is a national secondary road with the route designation N129; it also forms part of the Circumferential Road 5 (C-5) network of the Metro Manila arterial road system. Its western segment in Tandang Sora and Culiat, west of Commonwealth Avenue, is a narrow municipal road classified as a national tertiary road.[3]

Tandang Sora Avenue looking east near the junction with Quirino Highway in Talipapa

Tandang Sora Avenue was named after its location in the barangay of Tandang Sora. The barrio, in turn, was renamed from Talipapa in 1952 in honor of Filipina patriot Melchora Aquino.[4]

A flyover linking Tandang Sora Avenue with Luzon Avenue over Commonwealth Avenue in Culiat was built in 2009 as part of the C-5 Road network project.[5] In February 2019, the Department of Public Works and Highways announced the demolition of a flyover of Commonwealth Avenue at the Tandang Sora junction in New Era to make way for the construction of the Tandang Sora station of the Manila Metro Rail Transit System Line 7 (MRT-7).[6] A Metro Manila Subway station is also planned at the avenue's junction with Mindanao Avenue in Tandang Sora.[7]

  1. ^ "Quezon City 1st". Retrieved May 23, 2020.
  2. ^ PHIMCOS (August 2020). "Occupation and Victory The Philippines in World War II". The Murillo Bulletin Special World War II Issue. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
  3. ^ "2017 Road Data: National Capital Region". Department of Public Works and Highways. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
  4. ^ Republic Act No. 727 (June 6, 1952), An Act Changing the Name of the Barrio of Talipapa in Quezon City to Tandang Sora, retrieved March 29, 2019
  5. ^ Ong, Ghio; Flores, Helen (June 29, 2009). "DPWH: Tandang Sora-Luzon Avenue flyover done by yearend". The Philippine Star. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
  6. ^ Rey, Aika (February 14, 2019). "Tandang Sora flyover in Quezon City to be demolished for MRT7". Rappler. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
  7. ^ Vera, Ben O. de. "1st 3 Metro Manila subway stations seen operational by 2022". Retrieved March 29, 2019.