Meralco Avenue closed 5 years for subway project 

• The northbound and southbound lanes of Meralco Ave. in Pasig City will be closed to traffic as starting October 3, when construction of Metro Manila Subway Project (MMSP) Shaw Boulevard Station begins

• The road will be closed from the front section of Capitol Commons up to the corner of Shaw Boulevard until 2028, Department of Transportation says

• Public utility vehicles will be rerouted while private vehicles will have access to all available routes

Meralco Avenue in Pasig City will be closed for five years to make way for construction of the Metro Manila Subway Project (MMSP) Shaw Boulevard Station.

The road closure takes effect from Oct 3 until 2028 and will cover the front section of Capitol Commons up to the corner of Shaw Boulevard, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) said in a statement.

Meralco Avenue will serve as the project’s access point to the subway’s Shaw Boulevard Station.

Motorists are advised to take the following alternative routes to be provided by the Metro Manila Development Authority, Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board, and the city governments of Pasig and Mandaluyong:

• Public utility jeepneys (PUJs) from Meralco Avenue going to Shaw Boulevard will be rerouted to Captain Henry Javier St. to Danny Floro St. and vice versa
• Modernized jeepneys from Meralco Avenue going to Shaw Boulevard will be rerouted to Dona Julia Vargas Avenue to San Miguel Avenue and vice versa
• UV Express vehicles/units from Meralco Avenue going to Shaw Boulevard will be rerouted to Dona Julia Vargas Avenue to San Miguel Avenue or Anda Road to Camino Verde
• Private vehicles will be able to access all available routes.

The MMSP will be the first underground mass transit system in the Philippines and will become a modern railway system that will be at par with those in the rest of the world, DOTr said.

Funded by the Japanese government, the subway is a 33-kilometer rail line that will stretch from Valenzuela City to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3 in Pasay City, reducing travel time between Quezon City and NAIA from 1 hour and 10 minutes to just 35 minutes. DOTr earlier said the MMSP will have 17 stations.

Once operational, the underground mass system will cut across eight cities in Metro Manila, passing three central business districts, and service as many as 370,000 passengers daily.

On February 10, the Philippines and Japan signed a ¥253.3 billion (P112.9 billion) loan agreement for the second tranche funding of the MMSP Phase 1. The ¥104.53 billion (about P47.58 billion or US$933.73 million) first tranche of the loan worth was signed in March 2018.

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