Well, you can actually see the MMDA signs side by side with Quezon City and Pasig City signs with conflicting names.
In my experience, people will use whatever damned name they choose. So Katipunan Ave. will still be Katipunan Ave. no matter what the lawmakers say. And the LRT-1 station is still Vito Cruz Station even if the road has been renamed to Pablo Ocampo Sr. Ave. Similarly, the MRT-3 station is still Buendia Station even if the highway is now Sen. Gil Puyat Ave. (though curiously, the corresponding LRT-1 station is named Gil Puyat Station). As for the Manila East Road. I'm guessing this is a road from the American colonial period and I think it no longer has any usable meaning since R-4 (J.P. Rizal, etc.), R-5 (Shaw Blvd., Pasig Blvd, etc.), Ortigas Ave., and R-6 (Aurora Blvd., Sumulong, etc.) have supplanted the function of the "Manila East Road" whatever it is. But I'm just guessing and it's probably only the DPWH who can shed a light on this. On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Rally de Leon <rall...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is interesting. Maybe we should compile these road (renaming) updates > to get everybody informed (or at least understand the actions of MMDA as > they don't tend to explain why they rename all those street signs). Does it > mean that Katipunan Ave & E.Rodriguez Ave (pasig) no longer exist? Are LGU's > still entitled to use the local street names officially? > > Googling Manila East Road, I found a Supreme Court document (year 1964) > talking about some bus company inssue... > "...MANILA KM. 0.000 (Luneta) TO THE MUNICIPAL PLAZA OF PASIG, RIZAL, > following the *Manila east road via Sta. Mesa and Shaw Blvd*., is 15.1 > Kms." > found at > http://www.lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1964/sep1964/gr_l-14888_1964.html > I don't know if this was talking about the same Manila East Road (via Sta. > Mesa Manila and Shaw Blvd in Mandaluyong). So maybe it used to be connected > to Manila. > > > > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I guess the DPWH is the agency that should know about these things? >> >> I'm not actually familiar with the Manila East,South,North road system. >> I'm just familiar (somewhat) with the Radial and Circumferential Road system >> of Metro Manila. >> >> As a bit of trivia, did you know that Republic Act No. 8224 ( >> http://www.chanrobles.com/republicacts/republicactno8224.html) is "AN ACT >> RENAMING THE CIRCUMFERENTIAL ROUTE NO. 5 OR C-5 IN METRO MANILA, AS THE >> PRESIDENT GARCIA AVENUE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES"? That's the reason why you >> can see MMDA putting up street signs along the length of C-5 labeling it as >> "C.P. GARCIA AVE." even if the locals know the streets as Katipunan Ave. or >> E. Rodriguez Jr. Ave. >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Rally de Leon <rall...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Many years ago, I stopped by the road side (provincial road) of Pagsanjan >>> and saw this local street sign that says "Manila East Road". That gave me an >>> idea that the "Manila East Road" I knew along, starting from "Kay Tikling >>> junction" in Taytay Rizal, passing all the Diversion Roads of Angono, >>> Binangonan, etc. which was supposed to end in Tanay, actually crosses the >>> mountain in Pililla (zig-zags of Sitio Bugarin, Bgy Halayhayin, Pililla), >>> then down to Mabitac and all the way to Pagsanjan, Laguna. Actually, I don't >>> know where it ends in Laguna. >>> >>> A few weeks ago, I saw this DPWH construction signboard in Rosario, Pasig >>> City that says something like "Improvements of Manila East Road (portions of >>> Rosario to Cainta)..." so I was wrong all along. This can only mean that >>> "Ortigas Ave Extension" in Pasig and Cainta (and I suspect that even the >>> rest of Ortigas Avenue of San Juan) can also be part of the Manila East Road >>> System (which practically most of the locals don't know, except for maybe >>> DPWH). >>> >>> Anybody in this group knows somebody (who knows) when and what law or >>> decree created "Manila East Road"; where it officially starts and where it >>> ends? >>> >>> And while we're at it, maybe we can find out the same about Manila North >>> Road and Manila South Road System. All I know is that MacArthur Highway is >>> just a portion of long Manila North Road System, and Aguinaldo Highway is >>> just a portion of the long Manila South Road. The info may not be of >>> practical use to many, but it is still good to know. (it maybe the next >>> milliondollar question in your favorite quiz/trivia show, who knows) >>> >>> The thing is, for decades, most LGU's / barangay officials use the word >>> "National Road" on their provincial street sign instead of their actual >>> local name (or at least the name of the Road System in which it's a part of) >>> because of ignorance; and we waste a lot of paint and ink (on business >>> stationaries) for a wrong/inappropriate address info that LGU themselves >>> provided. I hope we can help do the research and correct this. Write the >>> DPWH? >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> talk-ph mailing list >>> talk-ph@openstreetmap.org >>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com >> > > -- http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com
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