Balintawak station
station on the Manila LRT Yellow Line (LRT-1)
Balintawak station is an elevated Light Rail Transit (LRT) station located on the LRT Line 1 (LRT-1) system located along EDSA at the boundary of barangays Balingasa, Unang Sigaw, and Apolonio Samson in Quezon City, Philippines. It opened on March 22, 2010 as part of the LRT-1 North Extension Project. The station serves passengers going to and from the northern parts of Luzon using the North Luzon Expressway.
Balintawak is one of two LRT-1 stations serving Quezon City, with the other being Fernando Poe Jr. It is the second station for trains headed to Dr. Santos and the twenty-fourth station for trains headed to Fernando Poe Jr.
The station is situated in front of the Balintawak Market, near the Quezon City–Caloocan boundary and the Balintawak Cloverleaf.
History
Balintawak station was once planned as an intermediate station of EDSA North Transit (ENT) Link Stage 1, a separate project that would have linked the MRT Line 3's terminus at North Avenue station with the LRT Line 1 and PNR North Main Line in Caloocan. During that time, no rail lines operated along the northern section of EDSA. However, the project never came into fruition when it was replaced by the Line 1 North Extension Project, a 5.4-kilometer (3.4 mi) extension of LRT-1 to the North Avenue station as part of the MRT-LRT closing the loop project to integrate the operations of the LRT-1 and MRT-3. While Balintawak station became part of the new project, full integration did not materialize, though the opening of the North Triangle Common Station is expected to materialize this.
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