Tandang Sora Avenue

C-5
Tandang Sora Avenue
; C-5; Tandang Sora Avenue
	2018 photo of Tandang Sora Avenue just east of Commonwealth Avenue in Matandang Balara
Route information
	Maintained by Department of Public Works and Highways - Quezon City 1st District Engineering Office and Metropolitan Manila Development Authority
Length	9.6 km (6.0 mi)
Component; highways	From Commonwealth to Magsaysay & Katipunan Avenues: N129; C-5 C-5;
Major junctions
West end	N127 (Quirino Highway) and Tullahan Road in Talipapa and Baesa
	General Avenue; N128 (Mindanao Avenue); Banlat Road; Visayas Avenue; N129 (Congressional Avenue); N170 (Commonwealth Avenue); N129 (Luzon Avenue); Capitol Hills Drive;
East end	N129 (Katipunan Avenue) and Magsaysay Avenue in U.P. Campus and Pansol
Location
Country	Philippines
Major cities	Quezon City
Highway system
	Roads in the Philippines; Highways; Expressways List; ;

Tandang Sora Avenue (formerly known as Banlat Road)^[2] is a major east-west thoroughfare bisecting Quezon City in Metro Manila, Philippines. It is a two-to-six-lane highway and municipal road that runs for 9.6 kilometers (6.0 mi) from its eastern terminus at Magsaysay Avenue in Pansol and U.P. Campus in Diliman to its western terminus at Quirino Highway in Baesa and Talipapa in Novaliches, crossing Barangays Culiat, New Era, Pasong Tamo, Tandang Sora, and Sangandaan.

The avenue's segment east of Commonwealth Avenue is a national secondary road with the route designation N129; it also forms part of the Circumferential Road 5 (C-5) network of the Metro Manila arterial road system. Its western segment in Tandang Sora and Culiat, west of Commonwealth Avenue, is a narrow municipal road classified as a national tertiary road.^[3]

Tandang Sora Avenue looking east near the junction with Quirino Highway in Talipapa

Tandang Sora Avenue was named after its location in the barangay of Tandang Sora. The barrio, in turn, was renamed from Talipapa in 1952 in honor of Filipina patriot Melchora Aquino.^[4]

A flyover linking Tandang Sora Avenue with Luzon Avenue over Commonwealth Avenue in Culiat was built in 2009 as part of the C-5 Road network project.^[5] In February 2019, the Department of Public Works and Highways announced the demolition of a flyover of Commonwealth Avenue at the Tandang Sora junction in New Era to make way for the construction of the Tandang Sora station of the Manila Metro Rail Transit System Line 7 (MRT-7).^[6] A Metro Manila Subway station is also planned at the avenue's junction with Mindanao Avenue in Tandang Sora.^[7]

Intersections

The entire route is located in Quezon City.

km	Destinations	Notes
	N127 (Quirino Highway) / Tullahan Road	Western terminus, traffic light intersection. Continues northwestward to Caloocan as Tullahan Road.
	Marcel Drive
	Creekside Drive	Gated road
	General Avenue	Alternate access to Mindanao and Congressional Avenue via Road 20.
	Narra Street
	N128 (Mindanao Avenue)	Former traffic light intersection. Opposite segments accessible via U-turn slots.
	J. Geronimo Drive
	D. Geronimo Street
	Venus Street
	Banlat Road
	Doña Sotera Street
	Don Felipe Street
	Visayas Avenue	Unsignaled intersection
	San Miguel Road
	Himlayan Road / S. Macaya Street
	Philand Drive
	N129 (Congressional Avenue Extension)	Opposite segments accessible via U-turn slots
	Cenacle Drive	Alternate access to Visayas Avenue
	Glenn Street
	Allan Bean Street
	Cassanova Drive
	Union Avenue
	Armstrong Street
	San Ponciano Street
	D. Reynaldo Street
	N170 (Commonwealth Avenue)	Former traffic light intersection; closed to give way to the construction of MRT-7 Tandang Sora station. Access to opposite segments via U-turn slots or nearby roads.
	Road 1
	Road 2
	Road 3
	Peace Valley Street
	N129 (Luzon Overpass)	C-5 and N129 segments of Tandang Sora Avenue start here. Access to N170 (Commonwealth Avenue) and N129 (Luzon Avenue).
	Vic Valley Street
	University Valley Street
	Capitol Hills Drive
	N129 (Katipunan Avenue) / Magsaysay Street	Unsignaled intersection. Continues south as Katipunan Avenue.
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Incomplete access Route transition

References

^ "Quezon City 1st". Retrieved May 23, 2020.
^ PHIMCOS (August 2020). "Occupation and Victory The Philippines in World War II". The Murillo Bulletin Special World War II Issue. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
^ "2017 Road Data: National Capital Region". Department of Public Works and Highways. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
^ Republic Act No. 727 (June 6, 1952), An Act Changing the Name of the Barrio of Talipapa in Quezon City to Tandang Sora, retrieved March 29, 2019
^ Ong, Ghio; Flores, Helen (June 29, 2009). "DPWH: Tandang Sora-Luzon Avenue flyover done by yearend". The Philippine Star. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
^ Rey, Aika (February 14, 2019). "Tandang Sora flyover in Quezon City to be demolished for MRT7". Rappler. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
^ Vera, Ben O. de. "1st 3 Metro Manila subway stations seen operational by 2022". Retrieved March 29, 2019.

14°40′19″N 121°3′1″E / 14.67194°N 121.05028°E / 14.67194; 121.05028

[qc1st-1] "Quezon City 1st". Retrieved May 23, 2020.

[journal-2] PHIMCOS (August 2020). "Occupation and Victory The Philippines in World War II". The Murillo Bulletin Special World War II Issue. Retrieved August 6, 2021.

[3] "2017 Road Data: National Capital Region". Department of Public Works and Highways. Retrieved March 29, 2019.

[4] Republic Act No. 727 (June 6, 1952), An Act Changing the Name of the Barrio of Talipapa in Quezon City to Tandang Sora, retrieved March 29, 2019

[5] Ong, Ghio; Flores, Helen (June 29, 2009). "DPWH: Tandang Sora-Luzon Avenue flyover done by yearend". The Philippine Star. Retrieved March 29, 2019.

[6] Rey, Aika (February 14, 2019). "Tandang Sora flyover in Quezon City to be demolished for MRT7". Rappler. Retrieved March 29, 2019.

[7] Vera, Ben O. de. "1st 3 Metro Manila subway stations seen operational by 2022". Retrieved March 29, 2019.

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