The Emilio Aguinaldo Highway, commonly known as Aguinaldo Highway and officially the Cavite–Batangas Road, is a four-to-six-lane, national highway in the province of Cavite, Philippines. It is one of the province's three major arterial roads, alongside Governor's Drive and Antero Soriano Highway, and serves as its principal north–south highway.
The highway extends from Zapote Bridge on the boundary between Bacoor and Las Piñas to Tagaytay. It passes through the cities of Bacoor, Imus, and Dasmariñas, and the municipalities of Silang and Alfonso. It forms part of National Routes 62, 419, and 410 of the Philippine highway network. The highway is named after General Emilio Aguinaldo, the first president of the Philippines and a native of Cavite.
Route description
Aguinaldo Highway passes through many establishments such as malls, shops, and government offices. Various high voltage power lines, most notably the Dasmariñas-Las Piñas transmission line of National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), utilize the highway right of way from its intersection with Aguinaldo Boulevard and Bacoor Boulevard to Barangay San Agustin II, Dasmariñas for accessibility to work vehicles and also due to scarcity of land for the acquisition of right of way and lands where the steel poles stand.
Originally with four lanes, it starts as a continuation of Diego Cera Avenue at Zapote Bridge. It crosses and becomes a six-lane road past Bacoor Boulevard which leads to Molino, Bacoor, and Aguinaldo Boulevard, which connects with Manila–Cavite Expressway. It then intersects with Tirona Highway, which leads to Kawit and Cavite City. It then passes Imus and enters Dasmariñas, where it reduces to a four-lane road and becoming a divided highway in most portions. Afterwards, it then intersects with Governor's Drive and Pala-Pala Road in Dasmariñas.
Past Pala-Pala Road, it begins its climb to Tagaytay, passing Silang and ends at Tagaytay Rotonda. The highway continues as Tagaytay–Nasugbu Highway towards the province of Batangas.
Alternative names The segment of Aguinaldo Highway north of Tirona Highway in Bacoor and part of N62 is alternatively known as Manila–Cavite Road, as the road network indirectly connects Cavite and Manila. South of Tirona Highway, it is alternatively known as Cavite–Batangas Road, historically serving as the link between Cavite and Batangas, forming N419 and part of N410. An exception is the unnumbered section bypassing the Silang poblacion, which is alternatively known as the Silang By-pass Road or Silang Diversion Road. In Tagaytay, it is alternatively known as Tagaytay–Manila via Silang Road, which is also applied up to its southern logical continuation, Tagaytay–Nasugbu Road, up to the eastern end of Mahogany Avenue. Additionally, the name Aguinaldo Highway is also alternatively applied to the Tagaytay segment of Tagaytay–Nasugbu Road.
History The present road originated from an old road that enters Cavite from Las Piñas. The old roads that predated the Aguinaldo Highway used a different alignment on Bacoor and Imus, that exist until today as a mixture of city-maintained roads and national roads. Portions of the road have been sites of battles of the Philippine Revolution.
During the American colonial era, the road reached as far as Silang. From 1933 to 1935, the section of the highway from Silang to Tagaytay was constructed using prisoners as construction workers. In 1938, the highway was made into concrete by President Manuel L. Quezon. The old roads that passed on the western barangays of Bacoor and Imus are bypassed by a new alignment that existed until today. The road formed part of Highway 17 that linked Imus with Batangas. It was also part of the Cavite-Manila South Road, which was renamed to Mexico Road in 1964, the year designated as "The Year of Philippine-Mexican Friendship."
On May 27, 1998, the traffic jam happened in southern side of the highway. It was caused by National Power Corporation (NAPOCOR/NPC) transmission line construction of the billion peso Dasmariñas–Las Piñas Transmission Line, with the line finished construction on July 15, 1999.
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