Tandang Sora Avenue

Tandang Sora Avenue is a major east-west thoroughfare bisecting Quezon City in Metro Manila, the 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.


C-5
Tandang Sora Avenue
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 Metro 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
 
East end N129 (Katipunan Avenue) and Magsaysay Avenue in U.P. Campus and Pansol
Location
Major citiesQuezon City
Highway system
  • Roads in the Philippines

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.[2]

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.[3]

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.[4] 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).[5] A Metro Manila Subway station is also planned at the avenue's junction with Mindanao Avenue in Tandang Sora.[6]

Intersections

The entire route is located in Quezon City. 

kmmiDestinationsNotes
N127 (Quirino Highway) / Tullahan RoadWestern terminus, traffic light intersection. Access to Balintawak and Manila to the south; Novaliches and San Jose del Monte to the north. Continues northwestward to Caloocan as Tullahan Road.
Marcel Drive
Creekside DriveGated road.
General AvenueAlternate access to Mindanao and Congressional Avenue via Road 20.
Narra Street
N128 (Mindanao Avenue)Former traffic light intersection, opposite segments accessible via U-turn slots. Access to E5 (NLEX Mindanao Avenue Link) and Valenzuela to the north; N173 (North Avenue) to the south.
J. Geronimo Drive
D. Geronimo Street
Venus Street
Banlat Road
Doña Sotera Street
Don Felipe Street
Visayas AvenueUnsignaled intersection. Access to N170 (Elliptical Road).
San Miguel Road
Himlayan Road / S. Macaya Street
Philand Drive
N129 (Congressional Avenue Extension)Opposite segments accessible via U-turn slots.
Cenacle DriveAlternate access to Visayas Avenue
Glenn Street
Allan Bean Street
Cassanova Drive
Union Avenue
Armstrong Street
San Ponciano Street
D. Reynaldo Street
N170 (Commonwealth Avenue)Former traffic light intersection; closed to give way to the construction of MRT-7 Tandang Sora station. Access to opposite segments via U-turn slots or nearby roads.
Road 1
Road 2
Road 3
Peace Valley Street
N129 (Luzon Overpass)Start of C-5/N129 designation. Access to N170 (Commonwealth Avenue) and N129 (Luzon Avenue).
Vic Valley Street
University Valley Street
Capitol Hills Drive
N129 (Katipunan Avenue) / Magsaysay StreetUnsignaled intersection. Continues south as Katipunan Avenue. Access to University of the Philippines - Diliman via Magsaysay Avenue; Pasig, Taguig and Parañaque via Katipunan Avenue.
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

References
  1. "Quezon City 1st". Retrieved May 23, 2020.
  2. "2017 Road Data: National Capital Region". Department of Public Works and Highways. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  3. "R.A. No. 727". The Corpus Juris. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  4. Ong, Ghio; Flores, Helen (29 June 2009). "DPWH: Tandang Sora-Luzon Avenue flyover done by yearend". The Philippine Star. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  5. Rey, Aika (14 February 2019). "Tandang Sora flyover in Quezon City to be demolished for MRT7". Rappler. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  6. Vera, Ben O. de. "1st 3 Metro Manila subway stations seen operational by 2022". Retrieved 29 March 2019.

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