Aurora Boulevard

R-6 Aurora Boulevard
The route of Aurora Boulevard in Metro Manila. Aurora Boulevard is highlighted in red.
The boulevard at night
Route information
Component highways	R-6 R-6 N59 from EDSA to Katipunan Avenue N180 from G. Araneta Avenue to EDSA
Major junctions
West end	N130 (Gregorio Araneta Avenue) / N180 (Magsaysay Boulevard) in Quezon City
Major intersections	N184 (Gilmore Avenue) AH 26 (N1) (Epifanio de los Santos Avenue)
East end	N11 (Katipunan Avenue) / N59 (Marcos Highway) in Quezon City
Location
Country	Philippines
Major cities	Quezon City and San Juan
Highway system
Roads in the Philippines Highways Expressways List

Aurora Boulevard is a four-to-ten lane major thoroughfare in Quezon City and San Juan in Metro Manila, Philippines. It was named after Doña Aurora Quezon, the consort of Commonwealth President Manuel Luis Quezon. It is one of the major roads in the commercial district of Araneta City in Cubao. Line 2 follows the alignment of the boulevard.

Aurora Boulevard is divided into two routes, the segment from G. Araneta Avenue to EDSA, and EDSA to Katipunan Avenue (C.P. Garcia Avenue) (C-5). Most of the road is a 4-lane dual carriageway, with Line 2 having five stations above ground, while one (Katipunan station) is located underground.

Aurora Boulevard starts as a physical extension of Ramon Magsaysay Boulevard past the intersection with Araneta Avenue near the Manila–Quezon City boundary. It then enters the City of San Juan before crossing Ermitaño Creek near Broadway Centrum to return to Quezon City, this time at the New Manila district. It then intersects Gilmore Avenue, Balete Drive, and E. Rodriguez Sr. Avenue, before it meets EDSA.

Past EDSA, it passes near the Araneta City Complex in Cubao. The road continues eastward through the barangays of Silangan, Quirino 3-A and Duyan-Duyan, until it ends at Katipunan Avenue (C.P. Garcia Avenue) (C-5) near the Quezon City–Marikina boundary. It continues eastward to Rizal province as Marikina-Infanta Highway (or still more commonly known as Marcos Highway).

The entire span of the road and its continuations have Class II paint-separated one-way bike lanes as part of the national government's Metropolitan Bike Lane Network.^[1] The segments within Quezon City are integrated with the city's own bike lane network, with the segment from EDSA to Katipunan Avenue having 0.6-meter (2.0 ft) painted buffer zones on both sides of the bicycle lanes.^[2]

The origins of the boulevard can be traced back to the Camino de Mariquina (Marikina Road, also called San Juan-Marikina Road), a small road built in 1900^{[citation needed]} linking Manila, San Juan del Monte (San Juan), and Mariquina (Marikina). The road, now known as N. Domingo Street, was then named Calle N. Domingo after Nicolas Domingo, a relator (court reporter) of the Real Audiencia of Manila in 1898.^[3]: 12

Prior to 1945, Calle Santa Mesa (Santa Mesa Boulevard, now Magsaysay Boulevard) was extended eastwards from its intersection with Santol Street, crossing the San Juan River and absorbing part of a street in San Juan. The extension was classified as part of Highway 53^{[citation needed]} and was named the Santa Mesa Boulevard Extension.^[4][5] It was also named Calle Morales after the name of the street in San Juan that it absorbed. Eventually, the Santa Mesa Boulevard Extension intersects with N. Domingo Street, wherein the remaining sections of N. Domingo Street from present-day EDSA to present-day Katipunan Avenue were absorbed by the extension.^[6][7]

By 1955, the Santa Mesa Boulevard Extension was known as Marikina-Ermita Avenue^[8] and also as the Manila Provincial Road.^[9] In 1963, the road was renamed Aurora Boulevard (as it is known today) to honor the former First Lady Aurora Quezon, the assassinated consort of former Philippine president Manuel L. Quezon. The Magnolia Ice Cream House ice cream parlor and factory,^[10] once stood at the corner of Aurora Boulevard and Doña Hemady Street, now occupied by Robinsons Magnolia that got its name from the former ice cream parlor and factory.^[11]

Province	City/Municipality	km[12]	mi	Destinations	Notes
Quezon City		6	3.7	N130 (Gregorio Araneta Avenue)	Traffic light intersection. No left turn from westbound. Continues westward to Santa Mesa as N180 (Magsaysay Boulevard).
Quezon City–San Juan boundary				Lambingan Bridge over San Juan River
San Juan				H. Lozada Street	Traffic light intersection.
		7	4.3	J. Ruiz Street	Unsignaled intersection.
				F. Santos Street	Eastbound only.
San Juan–Quezon City boundary				Ermitaño Bridge over Ermitaño Creek
Quezon City				Broadway Avenue / Valencia Street	Traffic light intersection, no left turn from westbound. Access to Broadway Centrum.
		8	5.0	N184 (Gilmore Avenue)	Traffic light intersection. Access to Greenhills Shopping Center and St. Paul University.
		8	5.0	Doña Hemady Street	Traffic light intersection.
				Robinsons Magnolia Access Road	Eastbound only. Access to Robinsons Magnolia.
				Balete Drive	Traffic light intersection.
				Seattle Street	Traffic light intersection.
		9	5.6	Betty Go-Belmonte Street	Unsignaled intersection.
				N. Domingo Street	Eastbound only. Unsignaled intersection.
				Eulogio Rodriguez Sr. Avenue	No eastbound access.
				AH 26 (N1) (EDSA)	Traffic light intersection. Route number changes from N180 to N59.
				General Santos Street	Eastbound only. Access to Araneta City.
				General Araneta Street / Annapolis Street	Unsignaled intersection. Access to Araneta City.
		10	6.2	General Aguinaldo Avenue / Imperial Street	Traffic light intersection. Access to Araneta City.
				Times Square Avenue / Cambridge Street	Traffic light intersection.
				Oxford Street	Westbound only.
				General Romulo Avenue / Yale Street	Traffic light intersection. General Romulo Avenue leads to Araneta City.
				Stanford Street	Eastbound/westbound access only. Access from opposite directions via U-turn slots.
				15th Avenue	Traffic light intersection.
		11	6.8	20th Avenue	Eastbound only. Traffic light intersection.
				Ermin Garcia Street	Westbound only.
		11.5	7.1	Anonas Street	Westbound only. Traffic light intersection.
				F. Castillo Street	Eastbound only. Traffic light intersection.
		12	7.5	Supa Street / J.P. Rizal Street	Traffic light intersection. No traffic lights to and from Supa Street.
				Emerald Street	Eastbound only. Access to Villa Aurora.
		13	8.1	N11 (Katipunan Avenue)	Traffic light intersection. Continues eastward to Antipolo as N59 (Marcos Highway).
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Incomplete access       Route transition

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