Harrison Street
Street description
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Harrison Street has a right-of-way width of approximately 25 meters (82 ft). It is a public transportation or medium-occupancy-vehicle corridor which is frequented by intra-metropolitan jeepneys and mega-taxis. This condition gives Harrison Street its relatively slow-moving, congested and highly pedestrian character.
History
Harrison Street forms part of an old Spanish coastal highway that linked the Province of Manila to La Laguna and other southern provinces. It was called Calle Real or Camino Real (Spanish for "royal street") which spanned from Ermita to Muntinlupa. At present, only the Las Piñas and Muntinlupa section is called Calle Real or Real Street as an alternative name for the road. The Pasay portion, also historically known as Calle San Lucas, is renamed Calle F.B. Harrison, while those of the City of Manila and Parañaque have been renamed to Del Pilar Street and Quirino Avenue, respectively. It was also one of the right-of-way alignments of tranvía that existed until 1945.
References
- ^ "Roads and Transport" (PDF). Pasay City Government. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 22, 2014. Retrieved November 1, 2013.
- ^ Map of the City of Manila and vicinity (Map). United States. War Department. General Staff. 1907. Retrieved January 18, 2023.
- ^ Buenaventura, Fidel (1946). "Municipality of Pasay" (Map). Municipality of Pasay. 1:8000. National Library of the Philippines. NLP00CG0000000204. Retrieved August 14, 2024.
- ^ "Map of city of Manila and vicinity". Library of Congress.