Lacson Avenue

Lacson Avenue
Gov. Forbes Street
Lacson Avenue looking south towards Maria Clara Street
Route information
Length:	2.9 km (1.8 mi)
Component highways:	C-2 C-2 N140
Major junctions
North end:	Tayuman Street in Santa Cruz
	Alfonso Mendoza Street Laon Laan Road Dapitan Street España Boulevard Magsaysay Boulevard–Legarda Street
South end:	Nagtahan Bridge in Santa Mesa
Highway system
Roads in the Philippines Highways | Expressways (list)

Lacson Avenue is the principal northwest-southeast artery located in Sampaloc district in northern Manila, Philippines. It is a 6-8 lane median divided avenue that runs approximately 2.9 kilometers (1.8 miles) from Tayuman Street in Santa Cruz to Nagtahan Bridge in Santa Mesa. It is a component of Circumferential Road 2 of the Manila arterial road network and N140 of the Philippine highway network.

The avenue was originally named Forbes Street or Governor Forbes Street, after William Cameron Forbes, governor-general of the Philippines, under whose administration the road was begun. It was extended south to meet Calle Nagtahan (Nagtahan Street) at the boundary of Sampaloc, San Miguel and Santa Mesa at the old Carriedo Rotonda, when the pontoon bridge of Nagtahan that connected it to Pandacan south of the Pasig River was built. Nagtahan Bridge was renamed to Mabini Bridge in 1967, while in 1971, Governor Forbes Street was renamed to Arsenio H. Lacson Street, after the Manila mayor of the 1950s.