Bonny Serrano Avenue


Colonel Bonny Serrano Avenue is a major east–west thoroughfare in the Eastern Manila District of Metro Manila, Philippines, between San Juan and Quezon City. It was named after the decorated Korean War hero Venancio "Bonny" Serrano.
It forms the northern limit of San Juan and the southern limit of Quezon City's New Manila district. It also links the PNP headquarters in Camp Crame with the AFP headquarters in Camp Aguinaldo. The avenue runs from the border of barangays Corazón de Jesús, St. Joseph, Pasadena, and Little Baguio in San Juan to barangays Libís and Blue Ridge B near the Quezon City-Marikina border in the east. The avenue is a problematic major road that has frequent traffic jams.

Route description

The four-lane avenue begins as a continuation of Pinaglabanan Street at P. Guevarra Street in Barangay Corazón de Jesús, San Juan. It proceeds due east and runs through the boundary between barangays Bagong Lipunan ng Crame in Quezon City, and West Crame in San Juan, passing by the San Juan Municipal Cemetery before arriving at the northern side of Camp Crame. East of its junction with Epifanio de los Santos Avenue junction, the road forms the northern boundary of Camp Aguinaldo with barangays Socorro, San Roque, and Bayanihan, intersecting with 15th Avenue at Gate 1 of Camp Aguinaldo. It then intersects with Katipunan Avenue via overpass, passing through barangays Blue Ridge A, Blue Ridge B, and Saint Ignatius before terminating at Eulogio Rodríguez Jr. Avenue in Libis near Camp Atienza, where it continues as FVR Road to the Marikina–Infanta Highway in Calumpang, Marikina and Santolan, Pasig. This section of the avenue connecting Katipunan and Eulogio Rodríguez, Jr. Avenues is a designated component of Circumferential Road 5 and National Route 11, while the section from EDSA to Katipunan Avenue is designated as National Route 185.

History

Bonny Serrano Avenue was formerly called the Carretera de Santolan, which ran from the Santolan pumping station by the Mariquina River, then in Pasig, to the El Deposito water reservoir in San Juan del Monte, the main source of water for Manila residents during the Spanish colonial period. It was built around 1901, during the early years of the American colonial period, costing . In 1935, the road, also known as the San Juan–Santolan Road and San Juan–Santolan Pumping Station Road, became the location of Camp Murphy, which eventually became Camp Aguinaldo and Camp Crame when the Philippines re-gained independence after World War II. After the establishment of Quezon City, the border of San Juan with the new city was redefined to also run along section of the road, currently between Ermitaño Creek and Camp Crame. The road was renamed after Colonel Bonny Merioles Serrano in 1970, three months after the war hero's death.

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Landmarks

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San Juan