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Marcos Road

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Marcos Road
Marcos Road near Smokey Mountain
Route information
Length: 6.2 km (3.9 mi)
Component
highways:
Major junctions
North end: Circumferential Road 4 in Navotas
  Lapu-Lapu Avenue
Circumferential Road 3
Capulong Street
Moriones Street
South end: Recto Avenue in San Nicolas
Highway system
Highways in the Philippines

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Marcos Road, also known as President Ferdinand E. Marcos Highway and by its highway designation Radial Road 10 or R-10, is a 6-10 lane divided highway in northern Manila, Philippines connecting Recto Avenue in San Nicolas district with Circumferential Road 4 in Navotas in the north. The highway is an extension of Bonifacio Drive and Roxas Boulevard (Radial Road 1 or R-1) north of the Pasig River running north-south through the Manila North Port area serving the coastal Tondo and Navotas communities. It was named after the 10th President of the Philippines under whose administration the road was constructed.

Marcos Road was built on reclaimed land called Tondo Foreshoreland, reclaimed in the 1950s as part of a government plan to expand and improve port facilities in Manila. It soon became the resettlement site of thousands of urban poor families that turned the area into what was once Southeast Asia's largest squatter colony. The road itself was constructed between 1976 and 1979 as part of the Manila Urban Development Project of the Marcos administration.

In January 2017, a bill was filed in the Philippine House of Representatives changing the name of this portion of Radial Road 10 to Mayor Gemiliano Lopez Boulevard in honor of the late Manila mayor Mel Lopez. This bill authored by Buhay Party-List Representative and former Manila mayor Lito Atienza is still pending in the Committee of Public Works and Highways as of February 2017.


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