Araneta City Bus Port
The bus port 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; 121.05722
Owned byAraneta City, Inc.
Operated byAraneta City, Inc.
Bus stands19 bays[1]
Bus operators
ConnectionsTransfers to intercity and provincial buses, jeepneys, and UV Express
Metro interchange Araneta Center-Cubao
Metro interchange 3 Araneta Center-Cubao
Bus interchange  51  53  61  Farmers Plaza
Bus interchange  1  Cubao
Future:
 E  Cubao
Construction
Structure typeSurface building
ParkingYes
Bicycle facilitiesYes
AccessibleYes
Other information
WebsiteOfficial website
History
OpenedMarch 14, 2017 (2017-03-14)[2]
Previous namesAraneta Center Bus Port
Passengers
6,000-12,000[1]
Location

The Araneta City Bus Port (ACBP), also styled Araneta City Busport, is a bus station in Quezon City, Metro Manila, the Philippines. The bus station 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]

Built and completed 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, and is also a hub for buses servicing the Bicol Region.[4][5] The busport is used by List of bus companies of the Philippines Within Metro Manila 9 (formerly 19) inter-city and provincial bus lines, including DLTBCo, Ceres Transport and Philtranco.[2][6] The terminal 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 in 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 25, 2022, the Araneta Group announced that all inter-city and provincial buses will be moved out from the Araneta City Bus Station, and will relocate their operations to the Araneta Bus Port. The day after the announcement, October 26, the Araneta City Bus Port reopened its operations, and services routes within areas around Metro Manila, Bulacan, Pampanga, Tabuk, Laguna, and Batangas. Presently, the Araneta City Bus Station is used to service modern jeepneys (BEEP) to and from select destinations in Quezon City, Pasig, and the Province of Rizal, under the Transport Equipment Aggregator and Management Inc. (1-TEAM), and other various transport cooperatives.[16][17][18]

Services

As of November 2022, the Araneta City Bus Port services the following routes:

Provincial

Bus

Intercity

Bus

Jeep & Shuttle Services

  • Araneta City, Inc. operates electric-powered city shuttles (e-shuttles, also known as Green & Go) to destinations within the Araneta City district from Ali Mall to the LRT 2 Cubao Station Concourse and the Gateway Mall 2 Southern Entrance. The Bus Port served as the shuttle's parking garage before reopening its services in November 2022.

Nearby Transport Services

Other transport terminals are located within walking distance from the Araneta Bus Port, which includes the following:

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 until 2023:

References

  1. 1 2 "Araneta City Busport". Araneta City, Inc. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 Dabu, B.R. (March 14, 2017). "New Araneta Center Busport features top-of-the-line amenities". GMA Network. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  3. 1 2 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. 1 2 "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. 1 2 3 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. ↑ "Beep Jeep". Araneta City, Inc. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  17. ↑ "Provincial buses at Araneta City terminal to relocate to new bus port". ABS-CBN News. October 25, 2022.
  18. ↑ Martinez, Araneta City, Jeffrey Enriquez, Denny. "Beep Jeep, City Bus & Provincial Bus Schedule". www.aranetacity.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  19. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Martinez, Araneta City, Jeffrey Enriquez, Denny. "Araneta City Bus Station". www.aranetacity.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  20. ↑ "Araneta Center – NAIA schdules". Premium Point-to-Point Bus Service. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  21. ↑ "Resolution No. 73 Series of 2020" (PDF). Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board. May 27, 2020. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  22. ↑ "Resolution No. 77 Series of 2020" (PDF). Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board. May 27, 2020. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  23. ↑ "Resolution No. 109 Series of 2020" (PDF). Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board. June 11, 2020. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  24. ↑ "Please be advised that the following UV Express Routes are now at the Center Avenue (Fronting Farmers Market):". www.facebook.com.
  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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