MacArthur Highway

File:MacArthur Highway, Malolos Dakila (Malolos, Bulacan; 02-10-2024).jpg, Bulacan]]

Manila North Road is a toll-free, two- to eight-lane national road that stretches for {{convert|684.855|km|mi|adj=|sp=us}} from the Bonifacio Monument (Monumento) Circle in Caloocan, north of Manila, to the northern province of Cagayan, passing through three cities in Metro Manila (Caloocan, Malabon, and Valenzuela), three provinces of Central Luzon (Bulacan, Pampanga and Tarlac), four provinces of the Ilocos Region (Pangasinan, La Union, Ilocos Sur, and Ilocos Norte), and the province of Cagayan in the Cagayan Valley region.{{cite news|url=http://businessmirror.com.ph/~businfk5/index.php/en/news/economy/23159-jica-world-bank-to-maintain-500-km-macarthur-highway |title=Jica, World Bank to maintain 500-km MacArthur Highway |work=BusinessMirror |accessdate=August 14, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814125901/http://businessmirror.com.ph/~businfk5/index.php/en/news/economy/23159-jica-world-bank-to-maintain-500-km-macarthur-highway |archivedate=August 14, 2014 }} The highway parallels the North Luzon Expressway from Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) to Mabalacat, the Subic–Clark–Tarlac Expressway from Mabalacat to Tarlac City, and the Tarlac–Pangasinan–La Union Expressway from Tarlac City to Rosario.

The entire road consists of a series of route numbering systems by the Department of Public Works and Highways. From Caloocan to Guiguinto and from Laoag to Aparri, it is the component of National Route 1 (N1) of the Philippine highway network, although N1 is not signposted in the first part of the highway; the latter section is also part of the Pan-Philippine Highway or Asian Highway 26 (AH26) of the Asian highway network. The rest of the route from Guiguinto to Laoag is entirely designated as the National Route 2 (N2) of the Philippine highway network. Particularly its section in Metro Manila, it is also a component of R-9 of Manila's arterial road network. Its remaining section in Aparri is classified as an unnumbered, tertiary road.

File:CSFLU city center - Manila North Road southbound (San Fernando, La Union)(2018-11-25).jpg, locally known as Quezon Avenue]]

Manila North Road's section from Caloocan to Urdaneta, Pangasinan is officially recognized as MacArthur Highway, although it is also known as such in La Union and Ilocos Sur.{{cite news|url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/2016/03/23/road-advisory-la-union-ilocos/|title=Advisory: Road works along MacArthur Highway in La Union and Ilocos Sur|date=March 23, 2016|access-date=September 26, 2021|publisher=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines}} Its section that forms part of N1/AH26 from Laoag to Aparri is also known as Maharlika Highway and part of Laoag–Allacapan Road.{{cite PH act|url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1940/12/17/executive-order-no-311-s-1940/ |chamber=PD|number=1062|title=Appropriating Funds for Infrastructure Development, Synchronizing the Same with Previous Public Works Appropriations|date=December 15, 1975|access-date=December 31, 2021|publisher=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines}}

Through the city proper of San Fernando, La Union, the road is locally known as Quezon Avenue. In Laoag, it forms part of Laoag–Paoay Road between Laoag Airport Road and at the city proper, it is locally known as J.P. Rizal Avenue and Gen. Segundo Avenue, respectively.

The highway was built in sections beginning in 1928 during the American colonial period.{{cite web |url=http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/index.php/en/lifestyle/life/16219-a-window-into-valenzuela-city-s-past?tmpl=component&page= |title=A window into Valenzuela City's past |publisher=BusinessMirror |accessdate=August 14, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20140814084822/http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/index.php/en/lifestyle/life/16219-a-window-into-valenzuela-city-s-past?tmpl=component&page= |archivedate=August 14, 2014 }} It followed much of the route of the old Manila Railroad line from Manila to Dagupan. It was designated Highway 3 or Route 3 in early U.S. military records.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0zd_DCBMiDQC&dq=%22macarthur+highway%22+luzon+general&pg=PA142 |title=The MacArthur Highway and Other Relics of American Empire in the Philippines |date=April 30, 2010 |publisher=Joseph P. McCallus |isbn=9781597974974 |accessdate=August 14, 2014}} It also reached south up to Manila through the present-day alignment of Rizal Avenue (Route 3A); the highway's section from Caloocan to Valenzuela (formerly Polo) was once part of Rizal Avenue Extension.{{cite PH act|url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1951/11/06/executive-order-no-483-s-1951/|title=Establishing the Classification of Roads|chamber=EO|number=483, s. 1951|date=November 6, 1951|access-date=November 6, 2021}} However, Highway 3 had different alignments: in Valenzuela, it used a route still existing today in barangay Malanday; in Bulacan, it went along the Maharlika Highway and Pulilan Regional Road from Guiguinto to Calumpit via Pulilan;{{cite map |author = |title = Official Road Map of the Philippine Islands: with Ports Indicated |trans-title = |map = |map-url = |date = |year = 1936 |url = https://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/philippinesroads-publicworksph-1936 |scale = 1 : 930000 |series = |publisher = Bureau of Public Works, Philippines |cartography = |page = |pages = |section = |sections = |inset = |edition = |location = |language = |format = |isbn = |id = |access-date = July 15, 2023 |archive-url = |archive-date =}}{{cite map |author = |title = ND 51-5 Manila |trans-title = |map = |map-url = |date = |year = 1954 |url = https://maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/philippines/txu-oclc-6539351-nd51-5-450.jpg |scale = 1:250,000|series = |publisher = Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers |cartography = |page = |pages = |section = |sections = |inset = |edition = |location = Washington D.C. |language = |format = |isbn = |id = |access-date = November 20, 2021 |archive-url = |archive-date =}} in San Fernando and Angeles, Pampanga, it is known as the Old Manila North Road; and in Paniqui, Tarlac, it followed Paniqui Poblacion Road.{{cite map |author = |title = 1944 Army Map Service Road Map of Northern Luzon, Philippines |trans-title = |map = |map-url = |date = |year = 1944 |url = https://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/northernluzon-ams-1944 |scale = 1:1000000|series = |publisher = Army Maps Service, Corps of Engineers |cartography = |page = |pages = |section = |sections = |inset = |edition = |location = Washington D.C. |language = |format = |isbn = |id = |access-date = September 5, 2021 |archive-url = |archive-date =}}{{cite map |author = |title = ND 51-1 Tarlac |trans-title = |map = |map-url = |date = |year = 1954 |url = https://maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/philippines/txu-oclc-6539351-nd51-1-450.jpg |scale = 1:250,000|series = |publisher = Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers |cartography = |page = |pages = |section = |sections = |inset = |edition = |location = Washington D.C. |language = |format = |isbn = |id = |access-date = January 21, 2021 |archive-url = |archive-date =}} New alignments were eventually developed, forming the present-day Manila North Road, which, by the 1950s, extended to Aparri in Cagayan, incorporating the former Cagayan–Ilocos Norte Road.{{cite PH act|url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1955/05/02/executive-order-no-113-s-1955/|title=Establishing the Classification of Roads|chamber=EO|number=113, s. 1955|date=May 2, 1955|access-date=November 6, 2021|publisher=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines}}

On June 17, 1961, the section of the Manila North Road from Caloocan to Urdaneta, alongside the western road that leads to Lingayen, was renamed MacArthur Highway in honor of the Liberator of the Philippines during World War II, General Douglas MacArthur.{{cite PH act|chamber=RA|number=1080|url=http://www.chanrobles.com/republicactno3080.html#.U-xvOo0azCR |title=An Act Providing that the Highway from the City of Manila to the Municipality of Lingayen, Province of Pangasinan, Passing Through the Municipality of Tarlac, Province of Tarlac, and the Municipalities of Villasis, Urdaneta, Sta. Barbara, Calasiao, Dagupan, and Binmaley, All in the Province of Pangasinan, Shall Hereafter be Known as the Macarthur Highway |date=June 17, 1961 |accessdate=August 14, 2014|publisher=ChanRobles Virtual Law Library}}

In 1991, the highway was affected by the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, with the collapse of the Bamban Bridge, which carried it over the Sacobia River at the Tarlac–Pampanga provincial boundary, effectively disconnecting it.{{cite journal|journal=FIRE and MUD: Eruptions and Lahars of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines|url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/pinatubo/martinez/|title=Observations of 1992 Lahars along the Sacobia-Bamban River System|publisher=United States Geological Survey|accessdate=February 2, 2025|first1=Ma. Mylene L.|last1=Martinez|first2=Ronaldo A.|last2=Arboleda|first3=Perla J.|last3=Delos Reyes|first4=Elmer|last4=Gabinete|first5=Michael T.|last5=Dolan}} It was subsequently rehabilitated after the eruption, with the construction of the new Bamban Bridge from 1996 to 1998.{{cite journal |title=Banban Bridge |journal=Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. Technical Review |url=https://www.mhi.co.jp/technology/review/pdf/e401ex/e396348.pdf|date=January 2003 |volume=40 |issue=2 |accessdate=August 11, 2020}}

File:NLEX Segment 10 x McArthur Hway, Valenzuela City, Mar 2024.jpg, where the highway intersects with NLEX Harbor Link]]

• {{jct|country=PHL|AH|N1|AH|N120|N|150|name1=EDSA|name2=Samson Road|name3=Rizal Avenue Extension}} in Caloocan. Southern terminus of the highway.
• {{jct|country=PHL|E|5|name1=NLEX Harbor Link}} in Karuhatan, Valenzuela
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|118|name1=Maysan Road}} in Malinta, Valenzuela

• {{jct|country=PHL|N|117}} in Meycauayan
• {{jct|country=PHL|E|1|N|1|name1=Tabang Spur Road}} in Tabang, Guiguinto. Transition from N1 to N2. Southern terminus of N2.
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|115}} in Calumpit

• {{jct|country=PHL|N|3}} in San Fernando
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|216}} in Angeles
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|217}} in Angeles (two northern termini)
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|215}} in Angeles
• {{jct|country=PHL|E|1|name1=Clark Spur Road}} in Mabiga, Mabalacat
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|213}} in Mabalacat
• {{jct|country=PHL|E|1|name1=SCTEX}} in Dolores, Mabalacat

File:MacArthur Hway, Tarlac City, Jul 2024.jpg]]

• {{jct|country=PHL|N|213}} in Capas
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|55}} at Tarlac City
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|58}} in Santo Cristo, Tarlac City
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|242}} in Paniqui (two eastern termini; intersects thrice)

• {{jct|country=PHL|N|56|N|212}} in Rosales
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|57}} in Urdaneta. Official northern end of MacArthur Highway section on Manila North Road.
• {{jct|country=PHL|E|1|name1=TPLEX}} in Urdaneta
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|210}} in Binalonan
• {{jct|country=PHL|E|1|name1=TPLEX}} in Pozorrubio

• {{jct|country=PHL|N|54|name1=Kennon Road}} at Camp 1, Rosario. Northern terminus of R-9.
• {{jct|country=PHL|E|1|N|209|name1=TPLEX|name2=Pugo–Rosario Road}} at Subusub, Rosario
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|209}} in Rosario (two southern termini)
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|208}} in Agoo
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|55}} in Agoo
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|54}} at Bauang
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|219|extra=airport}} in San Fernando
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|249}} in San Fernando
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|218}} in San Fernando
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|249}} in San Fernando
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|249}} in San Juan

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• {{jct|country=PHL|N|218}} in Tagudin
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|244}} in Candon (northern and southern termini)
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|203}} in Narvacan
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|204}} in Narvacan
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|203}} in Narvacan
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|202}} in Bantay
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|201}} in Cabugao

File:Patapat Viaduct in Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.jpg in Pagudpud carries Manila North Road's section that is the second part of N1 but with the AH26 concurrency.]]

• {{jct|country=PHL|N|200}} in Currimao
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|122}} in Currimao
• {{jct|country=PHL|N|100}} in Laoag. Northern terminus of N2. Transition to N1/AH26.
• {{Jct|country=PHL|N|122}} in Bacarra

• {{Jct|country=PHL|N|223}} in Abulug
• {{Jct|country=PHL|N|121}} in Abulug
• {{jct|country=PHL|AH|N1}} in Aparri. Transition from N1/AH26 to unnumbered tertiary road.

• Pan-Philippine Highway
• Philippine highway network
• List of places named for Douglas MacArthur

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