Aurora Boulevard | |
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Aurora Boulevard in Araneta Center, Cubao, Quezon City
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West end: |
Magsaysay Boulevard and Gregorio Araneta Avenue Gilmore Avenue Doña M. Hemady Street Balete Drive Betty Go-Belmonte Street N. Domingo Street Eulogio Rodriguez Sr. Avenue Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) 15th Avenue 20th Avenue Anonas Street F. Castillo Street J.P. Rizal Street |
East end: | Katipunan Avenue and Marikina-Infanta Highway |
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Highways | Expressways |
Aurora Boulevard is a 4–10 lane highway in Quezon City and San Juan in Metro Manila, Philippines. It was named after Mrs. Aurora Quezon, the wife of President Manuel Luis Quezon. It is one of the major roads in the Araneta Center in Cubao. The LRT Line 2 runs over the road.
Aurora Boulevard is divided into two routes, the Araneta Avenue to EDSA, and EDSA to Katipunan Avenue/C-5. Most of the road is a 4-lane dual carriageway, with the LRT-2, having 7 stations (6 overhead, 1 underground), above, except on the approach to Katipunan Avenue, where the line partly runs underground on approach to Katipunan Station.
Aurora Avenue starts as a physical extension of Ramon Magsaysay Boulevard past Araneta Avenue near the Manila-Quezon City boundary. It then enters San Juan and run near its boundaries. It soon enters New Manila, Quezon City, near Broadway Centrum, where Eat Bulaga is hosted. It then intersects Gilmore Avenue, Balete Drive, and E. Rodriguez Sr. Avenue, before it comes to EDSA.
Past EDSA, it passes near Araneta Center in Cubao. The road continues eastward through barangays Silangan, Quirino 3-A and Duyan-duyan, until it ends at Katipunan Avenue(C-5) near the Quezon City-Marikina boundary. Aurora Boulevard continues east to Cainta and Antipolo as Marcos Highway