Radial Road 10

This article is about the road network. For its road component in Manila also known as R-10, see Mel Lopez Boulevard.

Radial Road 10 (R-10), informally known as the R-10 Road, and commonly Road 10, is a network of roads and bridges which will comprise the tenth radial road of Manila in the Philippines once completed.^[2] It is the westernmost of the radial roads north of the Pasig River, running north–south close to the shoreline of Manila Bay. When completed, the road would link the city of Manila with Navotas and the northern coastal provinces of Bulacan, Pampanga, and Bataan in Central Luzon.

R-10 Radial Road 10
Road 10
Mel Lopez Boulevard, a segment of R-10
Route information
Maintained by Department of Public Works and Highways and Metropolitan Manila Development Authority
Length	105.0 km (65.2 mi) Including the existing 6.7 km (4.2 mi) Manila–Navotas segment (calculation from Google Maps)
Component highways	AH 26 (N120) in Manila and Navotas
Major junctions
South end	Anda Circle in Manila
Major intersections	N145 (Recto Avenue) in Manila N140 (Capulong Street) in Manila E5 (NLEX Harbor Link) in Navotas[1] N130 (C-3 Road) in Navotas
North end	AH 26 (N120) in Navotas Future: Bataan
Location
Country	Philippines
Major cities	Manila and Navotas
Highway system
Roads in the Philippines Highways Expressways List

At present, only the Manila–Navotas segment of the road is complete.

Route description

Mel Lopez Boulevard

Main article: Mel Lopez Boulevard

Between Anda Circle and the Maralla Bridge over Marala Creek (Sunog Apog Creek), R-10 is known as Mel Lopez Boulevard, formerly Marcos Road.^[3] It is the only segment of R-10 in the city of Manila that passes through the Manila North Harbor complex in Tondo before arriving in the city of Navotas, where it continues simply as R-10.

Radial Road 10

R-10 in Navotas

North of the Estero de Marala, R-10 serves the Navotas Fish Port Complex and terminates at the Bangkulasi Bridge over the Tullahan River, where it continues towards South Caloocan and Quezon City as Circumferential Road 4 (C-4).

Manila–Bataan Coastal Road

A highway linking Manila and the province of Bataan has been proposed as an extension of R-10.^[4][5] The plan was conceptualized during the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos.^[6] Like Radial Road 1 and its segments, Roxas Boulevard and the Manila–Cavite Expressway, the highway would run along the coast of Manila Bay north of the Pasig River. From the current terminus of R-10 in Navotas, Phase 1 will travel north along the coastal Bulacan municipalities and end at the proposed North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) Phase 3 in Bacolor, Pampanga, while Phase 2 will travel south from NLEX Phase 3 in Lubao, Pampanga to Balanga, Bataan.^[7] The proposed highway would be built over fishponds and serve as flood barriers for the coastal provinces.^[8]

See also

• List of roads in Metro Manila

External links

• Media related to Radial Road 10 at Wikimedia Commons