Edessa Avenue (EDSA) is a main road that runs through Manila, the capital of the Philippines, and the first impression of almost all friends who have come to Manila is - blocking...
The Edessa Avenue carries a great deal of weight in the hearts of Filipinos, mainly because it is a moment when the Filipino people united to drive out former President-Dictator Marcos. But there's a lot you might not know about this century-old (built in 1939) city main road.
1, EDSA is the abbreviation of the famous Filipino scholar Epifanio de los Santos, this main road runs through the urban area of Manila from south to north, and connects the north-south Luzon Expressway at the north and south ends, which is the most important logistics channel in Manila.
2, it is the longest and most congested main road in Manila, with the entire EDSA being about 23.8 km (14.8 mi) long.
3, According to statistics from the Philippine Department of Transportation in July 2019, an average of 430,000 cars are driving on EDSA Avenue every day.
4, as the main artery in the city, EDSA connects 6 cities of Manila, namely Pasay, Makati, Mandaluyong, San Juan, Quezon City and Kara okan.
5, on this 23.8 km section, up to 2,000 billboards converge, that is, every time you go 1 km on this main road, you will pass more than 80 large and small billboards.
6, Influenced by the Filipino culture that has a special love for Malling, there are 13 shopping malls on both sides of the 23.8 km EDSA Avenue: SM North EDSA, Trinoma, Eton Centris/Centris Walk, Araneta Center/Farmer 's Plaza, Robinson Galleria, SM Megamall, Starmall, Shangrila Plaza, Robinson Forum, Gloria, Alphaland Southgate Mall, Metropoint Mall and SM Mall of Asia.
7. In 2011, Senator Rene Lopez Relampagos submitted House Bill No. 5422 to the House of Representatives proposing to rename EDSA Avenue to Kresson Aquino Avenue in honor of the philippines' first female president, which was ultimately rejected.
8, EDSA Avenue was also one of the filming locations of the Hollywood movie "Spy Movies", where a car chase scene by the protagonist Jeremy Renner was filmed.
On 9, next to the Cubao section of EDSA Avenue, sits the Aaneta Coliseum, the first major sports in the Philippines, where the Battle of Manila between boxing champions Ali and Joe Fraser was staged.
10. In October 2000, the popular magazine FHM for men landed in the Philippines, when Filipino actress Diana Zubiri was invited to take a cover photo for the magazine. During filming, the sexy Diana attracted the attention of several families with all male drivers, which at one point caused traffic disruptions at the overpass leading to Shaw Avenue on EDSA Avenue.
On September 1, 2014, a businessman was stopped and kidnapped in broad daylight on the Mandaluyong section of EDSA Avenue, and the participants were eventually confirmed to be an active police officer and a dismissed officer.
Finally, as the most trafficked main road in the Manila area, the number of traffic accidents on EDSA Avenue accounts for 7.91% of the total traffic volume in Manila. According to statistics from the Philippine Department of Transportation in 2019, an average of 38 traffic accidents occur on EDSA Avenue every day.