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The Araneta City Bus Port (ACBP), also styled Araneta City Busport, is a bus station in Quezon City, Metro Manila, the Philippines. It 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] The station is also a hub for buses servicing the Bicol Region.[4] It was built 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.[5] The busport is used by at least 19 provincial bus lines, including DLTBCo, Ceres Transport and Philtranco.[2][6] It is connected to the LRT Line 2 and MRT Line 3 by a network of elevated walkways and mall connections.

Araneta City Bus Port
Intermodal
The busport entrance from General Romulo Avenue
General information
Location	160 General Romulo Avenue Quezon City, Metro Manila Philippines
Coordinates	14°37′15″N 121°3′26″E
Owned by	Araneta City, Inc.
Operated by	Araneta City, Inc.
Bus stands	19 bays[1]
Connections	Transfers to intercity and provincial buses, jeepneys, and UV Express Araneta Center-Cubao 3 Araneta Center-Cubao  8  9  10  Cubao  38  Araneta City Bus Port  1  Cubao
Construction
Structure type	Surface building
Parking	Yes
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Website	Araneta City Busport
History
Opened	March 14, 2017 (2017-03-14)[2]
Previous names	Araneta Center Bus Port
Passengers
6,000-12,000[1]

Location

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 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 on 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 26, 2022, all provincial buses from old Araneta Bus Terminal now relocate to Araneta Bus Port.[16]

Services

As of July 2022, the old Araneta City Bus Station services the following routes:

Provincial

Bus

• ALPS The Bus & Goldstar Bus Stransit – operate to and from three destinations in Batangas.[17]
• German Espiritu Liner Inc. - operate to and from three destinations in Bulacan.[17]
• HM Transport Inc. - operate to and from four destinations in Laguna.[17]
• Philippine Rabbit Bus Lines, Inc. - operate to and from four destinations in Pampanga.[17]
• R.J. Express, Inc. - operate to and from two destinations in Pampanga. [17]
• ES Transport - operate to and from destinations in Tabuk.[18]

Intercity

Bus

• UBE Express operates Premium Point-to-Point Bus Service to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.[19][17]
• Mega Manila Consortium Corporation operates bus routes 8, 9, and 10 of the rationalized bus transit to and from Montalban, Antipolo, and Doroteo Jose Street (Santa Cruz, Manila), respectively.[20][21][22][17]
• EOS Transport - Araneta City Bus Station to North Luzon Express Terminal.[23][17]

Jeep

• Araneta City, Inc. operates electric-powered city shuttles (e-shuttles, also known as Green & Go) to destinations within the Araneta City district. (temporarily suspended)
• Transport Equipment Aggregator and Management Inc (1-TEAM) operates modern jeepneys (BEEP) to and from select destinations in Quezon City such as Lagro, North Fairview, Diliman, Philcoa and Tandang Sora.[24]
• Traditional jeeps operate from the Araneta City Jeepney Terminal further north along General Romulo Avenue to Calumpang, Lagro, Libis, SM City Fairview, Litex Manggahan and Projects 2 and 3, Quezon City

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:

• ALPS The Bus – originally serving several destinations within Batangas,Bicol Region and Iloilo City.
• Ceres Transport – operates provincial buses to several destinations in Batangas & parts of Western Visayas, including Malay and Kalibo in Aklan, San Jose de Buenavista, Antique, Roxas, Capiz and Iloilo City.[25]
• CUL Transport – services the routes to Sorsogon, Leyte and Southern Leyte including Sorsogon City, Tacloban, Ormoc, Baybay and Maasin.[26]
• Diamond Bus – operates to and from select destinations in Samar.[27]
• DLTBCo – operates provincial buses to and from the following destinations in the Bicol Region and Eastern Visayas: Legazpi, Daet, Ormoc, Borongan and Catarman.[28]
• Elavil Bus Company – operates provincial buses to several destinations in Northern Samar.[29]
• Philtranco – serves the terminal on its route to several destinations in the Bicol Region via its main terminal in Pasay.[6]
• Silver Star Shuttle & Tours – operates bus services to and from Samar, Eastern Samar, Leyte and Bohol, including Calbayog, Catbalogan, Guiuan, Tacloban and Tagbilaran.[30]
• Provincial Buses like Amihan, Belleza, Bobis Liner, Cagsawa Travel, JVH, Megabus, Raymond Transportation and RSL operate to and from several
• Solid North Transit – runs several routes from Araneta City Bus Port to destinations in Pampanga, Tarlac and Pangasinan.[31] destinations in the Bicol Region, including Masbate.

References

External links

• Official website of Araneta City Busport

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