Macapagal Boulevard 3.72

Macapagal Boulevard, also known as Macapagal Avenue is a modern eight-lane road parallel to Roxas Boulevard running from Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex in Pasay to Marina Bay Village in Asia World City, Parañaque in Metro Manila, Philippines. It was named after former President Diosdado Macapagal. It is located in the reclamation areas. This road has 3 major bridges, crossing the 'channels', of which the largest is the Libertad Channel, where the Libertad Water Pumping Station is situated. Thanks to intersection reconfiguring around EDSA to relieve traffic, Macapagal Boulevard is now often used to access the SM Mall of Asia to the north and Cavite to the south. It is also the main major road in Metro Manila's reclamation area called Bay City.HistoryMacapagal Boulevard construction started in 1984 and ended in 1998, the year after Diosdado Macapagal's death in 1997.