Francis Burton Harrison Street, commonly known as F. B. Harrison Street or simply Harrison Street, is a major north-south collector road in Pasay, western Metro Manila, Philippines.
Street description
Harrison Street has a right-of-way width of approximately . It is a public transportation or medium-occupancy vehicle corridor frequented by intra-metropolitan
jeepneys and mega-taxis. This condition gives Harrison Street its relatively slow-moving, congested, and highly pedestrian character.
History
Harrison Street forms part of an old Spanish coastal highway that linked the Province of Manila to La Laguna and other southern provinces. It was called Calle Real or Camino Real (Spanish for "royal street") and spanned from Ermita to
Muntinlupa. Presently, only the Las Piñas and Muntinlupa section is called Calle Real or Real Street as an alternative name for the road. The Pasay portion, also historically known as
Calle San Lucas,
is renamed Calle F.B. Harrison,
while those of the
Manila and Parañaque have been renamed to Del Pilar Street and Quirino Avenue, respectively. It was also one of the right-of-way alignments of tranvía that existed until 1945.
Intersections
