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España Boulevard
España Boulevard (Spanish: Avenida España) is an eight–lane major thoroughfare in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. It is named after Spain, the country that formerly held the Philippines as a colony for 333 years (1565 until 1898). True to its name, several Spanish names abound on the street. It starts in the east at the Welcome Rotonda near the boundary of Quezon City and Manila and ends in the west with a Y-intersection with Lerma and Nicanor Reyes Streets in Manila.
Before becoming what it is today, the boulevard was a part of the Hacienda de Sulucan, one of the ten barrios which formed Sampaloc. In 1694, the hacienda was donated to the sisters of the Monasterio de Santa Clara. In 1905, it was turned over to the Sulucan Development Corporation. The road was constructed in 1913 as an access road to Sulucan, under the condition of being named "España".
The boulevard was once part of Quezon Boulevard, and it is part of the national road plan to connect the government center of Manila in Rizal Park to the proposed new capital on the Diliman estate.
España Boulevard is infamous for its floods during the rainy season. This is because it serves as a catch basin for runoff water from higher-elevated Quezon City, as Sampaloc was a swamp marsh area. It is common to find people wading in waist-deep floods, especially when a typhoon passes through Manila, causing class suspensions.
On June 30, 2004, Senator Serge Osmeña filed Senate Bill No. 496, which sought to rename España Boulevard into Lorenzo M. Tañada Avenue, in honor of the former senator. However, the bill remained pending up to the end of the 13th Congress of the Philippines.
A new mass-transit line has been planned several times to cross España Boulevard, the first one being called LRT Line 4 (the original plan of the current proposal in the 2020s), proposed in 1995 by the French consortium. The said line would traverse the boulevard until it reaches Batasan, then to Novaliches in Quezon City, which has been shelved in favor of the MRT Line 7 line that diverted and cut short the terminus at North Avenue. After the MRT-7 proposal was awarded, the plans were revived to create a separate line for the remainder of the alignment from the original LRT-4 proposal that the MRT-7 left out, which was named MRT-9 that was envisioned to traverse from Lerma to North Avenue. Subsequently, this was again shelved in favor of a bus rapid transit line that traverses from Lerma to UP Diliman, but was again shelved. In 2017, an unsolicited proposal put up by the Philippine National Railways (PNR) and Alloy MTD using the same remaining LRT-4 and bus rapid transit (BRT) alignment with the working project name "PNR East-West Rail" and is believed to be officially numbered Line 8, should the proposal push through. Currently, there are no plans for the elevated railway system.
In 2025, under Bongbong Marcos' leadership, the Secretary of Transportation Vince Dizon announced that España would feature its own busway system, marking the revival of a plan for the BRT route.
España Boulevard is an east–west artery in Manila. It connects Lerma and Nicanor Reyes (formerly Morayta) streets of Sampaloc district at the west end to the Mabuhay (or Welcome) Rotonda, Quezon City at the east end. The entire street is straddled by a center island, only broken at major intersections and the railroad crossing. Vehicles can make a left-turn only on two intersections: southward to Lacson Avenue and at the western terminus to Nicanor Reyes Street. España Boulevard is 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) long.
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España Boulevard
España Boulevard (Spanish: Avenida España) is an eight–lane major thoroughfare in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. It is named after Spain, the country that formerly held the Philippines as a colony for 333 years (1565 until 1898). True to its name, several Spanish names abound on the street. It starts in the east at the Welcome Rotonda near the boundary of Quezon City and Manila and ends in the west with a Y-intersection with Lerma and Nicanor Reyes Streets in Manila.
Before becoming what it is today, the boulevard was a part of the Hacienda de Sulucan, one of the ten barrios which formed Sampaloc. In 1694, the hacienda was donated to the sisters of the Monasterio de Santa Clara. In 1905, it was turned over to the Sulucan Development Corporation. The road was constructed in 1913 as an access road to Sulucan, under the condition of being named "España".
The boulevard was once part of Quezon Boulevard, and it is part of the national road plan to connect the government center of Manila in Rizal Park to the proposed new capital on the Diliman estate.
España Boulevard is infamous for its floods during the rainy season. This is because it serves as a catch basin for runoff water from higher-elevated Quezon City, as Sampaloc was a swamp marsh area. It is common to find people wading in waist-deep floods, especially when a typhoon passes through Manila, causing class suspensions.
On June 30, 2004, Senator Serge Osmeña filed Senate Bill No. 496, which sought to rename España Boulevard into Lorenzo M. Tañada Avenue, in honor of the former senator. However, the bill remained pending up to the end of the 13th Congress of the Philippines.
A new mass-transit line has been planned several times to cross España Boulevard, the first one being called LRT Line 4 (the original plan of the current proposal in the 2020s), proposed in 1995 by the French consortium. The said line would traverse the boulevard until it reaches Batasan, then to Novaliches in Quezon City, which has been shelved in favor of the MRT Line 7 line that diverted and cut short the terminus at North Avenue. After the MRT-7 proposal was awarded, the plans were revived to create a separate line for the remainder of the alignment from the original LRT-4 proposal that the MRT-7 left out, which was named MRT-9 that was envisioned to traverse from Lerma to North Avenue. Subsequently, this was again shelved in favor of a bus rapid transit line that traverses from Lerma to UP Diliman, but was again shelved. In 2017, an unsolicited proposal put up by the Philippine National Railways (PNR) and Alloy MTD using the same remaining LRT-4 and bus rapid transit (BRT) alignment with the working project name "PNR East-West Rail" and is believed to be officially numbered Line 8, should the proposal push through. Currently, there are no plans for the elevated railway system.
In 2025, under Bongbong Marcos' leadership, the Secretary of Transportation Vince Dizon announced that España would feature its own busway system, marking the revival of a plan for the BRT route.
España Boulevard is an east–west artery in Manila. It connects Lerma and Nicanor Reyes (formerly Morayta) streets of Sampaloc district at the west end to the Mabuhay (or Welcome) Rotonda, Quezon City at the east end. The entire street is straddled by a center island, only broken at major intersections and the railroad crossing. Vehicles can make a left-turn only on two intersections: southward to Lacson Avenue and at the western terminus to Nicanor Reyes Street. España Boulevard is 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) long.
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