# Ortigas Avenue

Ortigas Avenue is a 12.1 km (7.5 mi) highway connecting eastern Metro Manila and western Rizal in the Philippines. It is one of the busiest highways in Metro Manila, serving as the main thoroughfare of the metro's east–west corridor, catering mainly to traffic to and from Rizal.
The western terminus of the highway is at the boundary of San Juan and Quezon City. The highway then traverses through Ortigas Center and along the cities of Mandaluyong, Quezon City, and Pasig, followed by the municipality of Cainta, and finally ending in the municipality of Taytay.
The portion of Ortigas Avenue from EDSA–Ortigas Interchange, Quezon City to the Buli Bridge at the Pasig–Cainta boundary is designated as Radial Road 5 (R-5). The highway is also designated as National Route 60 (N60) and National Route 184 (N184) of the Philippine highway network, respectively.

## Etymology

The highway is named after Filipino lawyer and businessman Don Francisco Emilio Barcinas Ortigas Sr. (1875–1935), popularly known as "Don Paco" or simply Francisco Ortigas. Ortigas is known for establishing a partnership with several businessmen (now Ortigas & Company) in 1931 to purchase the 4,033-hectare (9,970-acre) Hacienda de Mandaluyon from the Augustinian Order, which now spans the cities of San Juan, Mandaluyong, Pasig, and Quezon City.

## Route description

Ortigas Avenue cuts eastwards from the city boundary of San Juan and Quezon City in Metro Manila to Antipolo in Rizal, passing through residential, industrial, and commercial areas, including Ortigas Center, its namesake central business district. Its section from Bonny Serrano Avenue to EDSA forms part of National Route 184 (N184), a secondary national road under the Philippine highway network. Meanwhile, the rest of the route east of EDSA forms part of National Route 60 (N60), a primary national road. Eastwards past the C5–Ortigas Interchange in Pasig, the avenue is called Ortigas Avenue Extension. Its section from Dr. Sixto Antonio Avenue in Pasig to Felix Avenue at the Cainta Junction is officially known as Pasig–Cainta Road and forms part of the Manila East Road. From Cainta Junction to Kaytikling Rotunda in Taytay, it is alternatively known as Cainta-Kayticling-Antipolo-Teresa-Morong Road.
Ortigas Avenue starts as a physical continuation of Granada Street past Bonny Serrano Avenue at the boundary of San Juan and Quezon City. It then cuts through Greenhills, San Juan and northeast of Wack Wack Golf and Country Club in Mandaluyong. It crosses EDSA at the EDSA–Ortigas Interchange at the boundary of Mandaluyong and Quezon City, making the highway go back to Quezon City after it goes far away from San Juan-Quezon City border in Bonny Serrano Street, and runs through Ortigas Center, making a slight curve on Meralco Avenue. The avenue soon cuts through Ugong, enters Pasig, and crosses Circumferential Road 5 at the C5–Ortigas Interchange, where Bridgetowne real estate development is located. It soon crosses the Marikina River and Manggahan Floodway, which enters the barangay of Rosario, still in Pasig. The avenue partially becomes a single carriageway, changing back into a dual carriageway, and then enters the province of Rizal at Cainta, past SM City East Ortigas (formerly Ever Gotesco Ortigas).
It crosses Bonifacio and Felix Avenues at Cainta Junction. It then continues to Taytay and passes over the Kaytikling Rotunda with Taytay Diversion Road in Taytay, Rizal before continuing as Manila East Road.

### Bicycle lanes

Most of the road from its intersection with Bonny Serrano Avenue to the Pasig–Cainta borde has Class II paint-separated one-way bicycle lanes as part of the Metropolitan Bike Lane Network. Additionally, the entire span of Ortigas Avenue from Bonny Serrano Avenue to Connecticut Street in San Juan has bollards as protection. However, these bollards are frequently damaged by motorists who intrude into the bicycle lanes, as the San Juan city government has struggled to regularly replace damaged bollards since its implementation in 2020.
On August 18, 2023, San Juan Mayor Francis Zamora issued an advisory stating that the city has removed the bollards along the Ortigas Avenue bicycle lanes to be replaced with cat eye markers. The advisory stated that this was done following a "thorough evaluation" conducted by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority to "restore roads to their optimal capacity" due to "congestion and a reduction in road capacity".

### Proposal for an elevated expressway (R-5/Ortigas Expressway)

Ireka Construction Berhad, a Malaysian company, and EEI Corporation entered into a memorandum of understanding in 1996 to construct the elevated highway as part of a joint venture with the Philippine National Construction Corporation (PNCC). This would have been the Philippines' first elevated road of this length. The Metro Manila Skyway, which is being built on top of the South Luzon Expressway, is a similar project.
In 1999, a joint venture of Strategic Alliance Development Corporation (STRADEC), Marubeni, and Kumagai Gumi under the build-operate transfer (BOT) scheme proposed the construction of a 5.7-kilometer (3.5 mi) 6-lane Ortigas Expressway as a multi-story structure over the existing Ortigas Avenue Extension from E. Rodriguez (junction with C-5) to the Circumferential Road 6. No new proposals were made since then.

## Intersections

| Province | City/Municipality | km | mi | Destinations | Notes |
| Quezon City–San Juan boundary | Quezon City–San Juan boundary | 9 | 5.6 | Bonny Serrano Avenue | Traffic light intersection. Western terminus. Continues west as Granada Street. |
| San Juan | San Juan | | | Xavier Street | Restricted eastbound access for North Greenhills. Former westbound access for heavy traffic in the Xavier School vicinity. |
| San Juan | San Juan | 9 | 5.6 | Madison Street | Traffic light intersection. Access for North Greenhills and the Xavier School-ICA vicinity. |
| San Juan | San Juan | | | Roosevelt Street | Traffic light intersection. No left turn on both sides. Access for North Greenhills and West Greenhills. |
| San Juan | San Juan | | | Club Filipino Drive | Traffic light intersection. Provides access to the Greenhills Shopping Center. |
| San Juan | San Juan | 10 | 6.2 | Wilson Street | Traffic light intersection. Provides access to the Greenhills Shopping Center. |
| San Juan–Mandaluyong boundary | San Juan–Mandaluyong boundary | | | Connecticut Street | Traffic light intersection. Access for West Greenhills and the Greenhills Shopping Center. |
| Mandaluyong | Mandaluyong | | | La Salle Street | Former westbound access to Greenhills East. |
| Mandaluyong | Mandaluyong | | | Holy Cross Street | Former westbound access to Greenhills East. |
| Mandaluyong | Mandaluyong | 11 | 6.8 | Notre Dame Street | Eastbound access only. Access for Wack-Wack Village. |
| Mandaluyong | Mandaluyong | | | Columbia Street | Eastbound access served by a U-turn slot. Access for Greenhills East. |
| Mandaluyong–Quezon City boundary | Mandaluyong–Quezon City boundary | | | AH 26 (N1) (Epifanio de los Santos Avenue) | EDSA–Ortigas Interchange. Traffic light intersection below interchange. Route number change from N184 to N60. Start of R-5 concurrency. |
| Quezon City | Quezon City | | | Arcadia Avenue | Westbound access only. Access for Arcadia Village. |
| Quezon City | Quezon City | | | ADB Avenue | Eastbound access only. Traffic light intersection on the eastbound side. |
| Quezon City | Quezon City | | | Zalameda Street | Westbound access only. Access for Corinthian Gardens. |
| Quezon City–Pasig boundary | Quezon City–Pasig boundary | | | E. Abello Street | Westbound access only. |
| Pasig | Pasig | 12.1 | 7.5 | F. Ortigas Jr. Road | Eastbound access only. |
| Pasig | Pasig | | | Meralco Avenue | Traffic light intersection. |
| Pasig | Pasig | | | Gardner Street | Westbound access only. Access for Meralco Sports Club. |
| Pasig | Pasig | 13 | 8.1 | Royal Palm Street | Eastbound access only. Access for Valle Verde IV. |
| Pasig | Pasig | | | M. D. Camacho Road | Westbound access only. |
| Pasig | Pasig | | | Lanuza Avenue | Traffic light intersection. |
| Pasig | Pasig | | | Green Meadows Avenue | Traffic light intersection. |
| Pasig | Pasig | | | Central Avenue | Eastbound access only. |
| Pasig | Pasig | 14 | 8.7 | N11 (Eulogio Rodriguez Jr. Avenue) | Traffic light intersection under interchange. |
| Pasig | Pasig | | | West Drive | Access from westbound service road only. |
| Pasig | Pasig | | | Rosario Bridge over Marikina River | Rosario Bridge over Marikina River |
| Pasig | Pasig | | | Dr. Sixto Antonio Avenue / ROTC Street | Left turns from westbound provided by U-turn under Rosario Bridge. Start of Manila East Road. |
| Pasig | Pasig | | | Eulogio Amang Rodriguez Avenue | Right-in, right out. Left turns via U-turn slots. |
| Pasig | Pasig | 15 | 9.3 | C. Raymundo Avenue / Tramo Street | Left turns provided by U-turn locations |
| Pasig | Pasig | 15.5 | 9.6 | West Bank Road | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance. U-turn location used for left turns from Sixto Antonio and C. Raymundo intersections. |
| Pasig | Pasig | | | Ortigas Bridge over Manggahan Floodway | Ortigas Bridge over Manggahan Floodway |
| Pasig | Pasig | | | East Bank Road | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance. |
| Pasig | Pasig | | | President Quezon Street | Westbound access only. |
| Pasig | Pasig | | | De Castro Avenue | Eastbound access only. |
| Pasig | Pasig | | | Pearl Street | |
| Pasig | Pasig | | | Melbourne Street | |
| Pasig | Pasig | | | Countryside Avenue | |
| Pasig | Pasig | | | Monaco Street | |
| Pasig | Pasig | | | Riverside Drive | |
| Pasig | Pasig | | | Saint Joseph Drive | |
| Pasig | Pasig | | | Kamagong Sur Street | Restricted westbound access. |
| Pasig | Pasig | | | 5th Avenue | |
| Buli Creek | Buli Creek | | | Cainta-Buli Bridge | Cainta-Buli Bridge |
| Rizal | Cainta | | | Malinis Street | Westbound access only. |
| Rizal | Cainta | | | Gloria Extension | Eastbound access only. |
| Rizal | Cainta | 18 | 11 | N601 (Bonifacio Avenue) / Felix Avenue | Cainta Crossing. Traffic light intersection. End of Manila East Road (Rosario–Cainta Road) segment. |
| Rizal | Cainta | | | Brookside Drive | Unsignaled intersection. |
| Rizal | Cainta | | | Sunrise Drive | |
| Rizal | Cainta | | | Marlo Drive | Eastbound access only. |
| Rizal | Cainta | | | Sunset Drive / J.G. Garcia Sr. Street | Access from opposite directions accessible via U-turn slot. Former traffic light intersection. |
| Rizal | Cainta | | | Robin Street | |
| Rizal | Cainta | 20 | 12 | Hunters ROTC Guerilla Street | |
| Rizal | Cainta | | | Eagle Street | Westbound access only. |
| Rizal | Cainta–Taytay boundary | | | General A. Ricarte Street / Don Celso Tuason Street | Traffic light intersection. |
| Rizal | Cainta–Taytay boundary | | | Sampaloc Street | Eastbound access only. |
| Rizal | Cainta–Taytay boundary | | | Santol Street | Eastbound access only. |
| Rizal | Cainta–Taytay boundary | | | Tanguille Street | Eastbound access only. |
| Rizal | Cainta–Taytay boundary | | | Suburban Drive | Unsignaled intersection |
| Rizal | Taytay | | | Dao Street | Eastbound access only. |
| Rizal | Taytay | | | Narra Street | |
| Rizal | Taytay | | | E. Rodriguez Avenue | Traffic light intersection. |
| Rizal | Taytay | | | N. Pascual Street | Eastbound access only. |
| Rizal | Taytay | | | Baltao Street | |
| Rizal | Taytay | | | Pearl Avenue | Eastbound access only. |
| Rizal | Taytay | | | Palmera Avenue | |
| Rizal | Taytay | 21 | 13 | N60 (Corazon C. Aquino Avenue) / Taytay Diversion Road / L. Wood Street | Roundabout (Kaytiking Rotunda). Eastern terminus. End of N60 and R-5 designations. |
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Closed/former Concurrency terminus Incomplete access Route transition ||||||

## Landmarks

This list is from northwest to southeast

### San Juan

* Greenhills

### Mandaluyong

* Wack Wack Golf and Country Club
* La Salle Green Hills
* Department of Migrant Workers

### Quezon City

* EDSA Shrine
* Robinsons Galleria

### Pasig

* Ortigas Building
* Meralco main office
** Meralco Theater
* The Medical City Ortigas
** Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health
* Christ's Commission Fellowship
* Bridgetowne
* International Pipe Industries (IPI)
* Santo Rosario de Pasig Church
* SM City East Ortigas

### Cainta

* Robinsons Cainta
* Primark Town Center Cainta

### Taytay

* Kaytikling RotundafI