Araneta City Bus Port

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Araneta City Bus Port
Intermodal
File:Araneta City Busport01.jpg
The busport entrance from General Romulo Avenue
General information
Location160 General Romulo Avenue
Quezon City, Metro Manila
Philippines
Coordinates14°37′15″N 121°3′26″E / 14.62083°N 121.05722°E / 14.62083; 121.05722Coordinates: 14°37′15″N 121°3′26″E / 14.62083°N 121.05722°E / 14.62083; 121.05722
Owned byAraneta City, Inc.
Operated byAraneta City, Inc.
Bus stands19 bays[1]
ConnectionsTransfers to intercity and provincial buses, jeepneys, and UV Express
Metro interchange Lrtalogo.svg Araneta Center-Cubao
Metro interchange 3 Araneta Center-Cubao
Bus interchange  8  9  10  Cubao
Bus interchange  38  Araneta City Bus Port
Bus interchange QuezonCityBusService.png  1  Cubao
Construction
Structure typeSurface building
ParkingYes
Bicycle facilitiesYes
Disabled accessYes
Other information
WebsiteAraneta City Busport
History
OpenedMarch 14, 2017 (2017-03-14)[2]
Previous namesAraneta Center Bus Port
Passengers
6,000-12,000[1]

The Araneta City Bus Port (ACBP), also styled Araneta City Busport, is a bus station in Quezon City, Metro Manila, the Philippines. It is currently one of two bus terminals in the Araneta City business district that link Metro Manila with the provinces in the north and south of the country, including cities in the Visayas and Mindanao via the Philippine Nautical Highway System.[2][3] The station is also a hub for buses servicing the Bicol Region.[4] It was built in 2017 as the modern alternative to, and eventual replacement for, the adjacent Araneta City Bus Terminal, the oldest integrated bus terminal in Metro Manila, in operation since 1993.[5] The busport is used by at least 19 provincial bus lines, including DLTBCo, Ceres Transport and Philtranco.[2][6] It is connected to the LRT Line 2 and MRT Line 3 by a network of elevated walkways and mall connections.

Location

General Romulo Avenue alongside Ali Mall

The Araneta City Bus Port is located along General Romulo Avenue on the eastern side of Araneta City within the barangay of Socorro, Quezon City. It occupies the ground level of Manhattan Heights, a four-tower residential condominium complex that is part of the 5.7-hectare (14-acre), 18-tower highrise community developed by Megaworld Corporation called Manhattan Gardens.[7] The bus station is situated in the district of Cubao, a densely populated area north of Ortigas Center in east-central Metro Manila that has the highest density of bus terminals in the entire Manila metropolitan area.[8] It is directly across from Ali Mall and one block from the old Araneta bus station on Times Square Avenue.

History

The old Araneta bus terminal on Times Square Avenue

The Araneta busport sits on the original location of Metro Manila's first integrated terminal which opened in 1993.[9] In 2011, the Araneta Center Bus Station was relocated to the old Rustan's building located on Times Square Avenue built in 1974, after the department store transferred to its new home at the newly opened Gateway Mall in 2005,[9][10] to make way for the construction of the Manhattan Heights, a 4-tower condominium development, as part of the Manhattan Gardens complex. The old bus terminal is expected to be torn down in the future to make way for the construction of the Manhattan Plaza, the final highrise development of the Manhattan Gardens project.[9]

The modern busport at Manhattan Heights was inaugurated as the Araneta Center Bus Port in March 2017 with Vice President Leni Robredo in attendance.[3] Following the issuance of the Metro Manila Council regulation prohibiting the operation of all provincial bus terminals along EDSA in order to ease traffic congestion in Manila's main artery, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority announced in May 2019 that the Araneta bus terminal shall be exempt from the ban.[11]

In March 2020, the terminal was closed due the Covid-19 pandemic, and served as an RT-PCR COVID-19 saliva testing site, in partnership with the Philippine Red Cross, while transport services were temporarily moved to the old Araneta City Bus Station, which has 23 bays.[12] The old bus terminal reopened on September 2020, and has limited its operations to Central Luzon, and has gradually expanded its services, while reviving previous routes within 2021 to 2022.[13] [14] [15] As of 2021, the Araneta Group have no announcement for the bus port's reopening, and is currently being utilized as a parking facility.

On October 26, 2022, all provincial buses from old Araneta Bus Terminal now relocate to Araneta Bus Port.[16]

Services

As of July 2022, the old Araneta City Bus Station services the following routes:

Provincial

Bus

  • ALPS The Bus & Goldstar Bus Stransit – operate to and from three destinations in Batangas.[17]
  • German Espiritu Liner Inc. - operate to and from three destinations in Bulacan.[17]
  • HM Transport Inc. - operate to and from four destinations in Laguna.[17]
  • Philippine Rabbit Bus Lines, Inc. - operate to and from four destinations in Pampanga.[17]
  • R.J. Express, Inc. - operate to and from two destinations in Pampanga. [17]
  • ES Transport - operate to and from destinations in Tabuk.[18]

Intercity

Bus

Jeep

  • Araneta City, Inc. operates electric-powered city shuttles (e-shuttles, also known as Green & Go) to destinations within the Araneta City district. (temporarily suspended)
  • Transport Equipment Aggregator and Management Inc (1-TEAM) operates modern jeepneys (BEEP) to and from select destinations in Quezon City such as Lagro, North Fairview, Diliman, Philcoa and Tandang Sora.[24]
  • Traditional jeeps operate from the Araneta City Jeepney Terminal further north along General Romulo Avenue to Calumpang, Lagro, Libis, SM City Fairview, Litex Manggahan and Projects 2 and 3, Quezon City

Suspended due to the COVID-19 Pandemic

The following bus companies moved out from the Araneta City Bus Station and shifted their operations within their own terminals within Cubao:

References

  1. ^ a b "Araneta City Busport". Araneta City, Inc. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Dabu, B.R. (March 14, 2017). "New Araneta Center Busport features top-of-the-line amenities". GMA Network. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  3. ^ a b de Jesus, J.L. (March 14, 2017). "Bus rider Robredo graces launch of modern Cubao terminal". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  4. ^ "Land transport in Manila". Lonely Planet. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  5. ^ Garcia, L. (September 26, 2019). "The New Araneta City rises". BusinessMirror. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  6. ^ a b "New Araneta Center BusPort Ticketing System". Philtranco. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  7. ^ Remo, A.R. (November 10, 2018). "Be at the center of it all at Manhattan Garden City". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  8. ^ Boquet, Y. (December 3, 2013). "Battling congestion in Manila: the EDSA problem" (PDF). United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  9. ^ a b c Aguilar, K. (April 2, 2017). "Cubao's Modern Bus Terminal". The Urban Roamer. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  10. ^ Tagabucba, M.C. (September 25, 2016). "Nedy Tantoco and Judy Araneta-Roxas: Hand-in-hand at hatdog Rustan's Gateway Cubao". The Philippine Star. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  11. ^ Ong, G. (May 6, 2019). "Cubao bus terminal to stay – MMDA". The Philippine Star. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  12. ^ "Shopping malls now host saliva collection sites for RT-PCR tests". February 22, 2021.
  13. ^ Dimen, Yoshke (September 27, 2020). "PROVINCIAL BUSES: List of Requirements & Terminals (To and from Metro Manila)". The Poor Traveler Itinerary Blog.
  14. ^ Servallos, Neil Jayson. "LTFRB opens 2 bus routes". Philstar.com.
  15. ^ "Laguna, Batangas buses resume services from Araneta City". BusinessWorld Online. April 3, 2022.
  16. ^ "Provincial buses at Araneta City terminal to relocate to new bus port". ABS-CBN News. October 25, 2022.
  17. ^ a b c d e f g h Martinez, Araneta City, Jeffrey Enriquez, Denny. "Araneta City Bus Station". www.aranetacity.com.
  18. ^ ES Transport opens Cubao–Tabuk route
  19. ^ "Araneta Center – NAIA schdules". Premium Point-to-Point Bus Service. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  20. ^ "Resolution No. 73 Series of 2020" (PDF). Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board. May 27, 2020. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  21. ^ "Resolution No. 77 Series of 2020" (PDF). Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board. May 27, 2020. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  22. ^ "Resolution No. 109 Series of 2020" (PDF). Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board. June 11, 2020. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  23. ^ Gonzales, Cathrine (April 20, 2022). "Free rides for NLET-Cubao, NLET-PITX start on April 21". INQUIRER.net.
  24. ^ "Beep Jeep". Araneta City, Inc. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  25. ^ "Ceres Bus". PHBus Co. Ltd. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  26. ^ "DLTB Bus". PHBus Co. Ltd. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  27. ^ "Diamond Bus". PHBus Co. Ltd. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  28. ^ "DLTB Bus". PHBus Co. Ltd. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  29. ^ "Elavil Bus". PHBus Co. Ltd. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  30. ^ "Silver Star Bus". PHBus Co. Ltd. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  31. ^ "Solid North Bus". PHBus Co. Ltd. Retrieved January 5, 2020.

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