North Luzon Expressway information

R-8
North Luzon Expressway
; R-8; North Luzon Expressway
	Map of expressways in Luzon, with the North Luzon Expressway in orange
	NLEX northbound, just north of Paso de Blas, Valenzuela
Route information
	Part of AH26
	Maintained by NLEX Corporation
Length	84 km (52 mi) Including Tabang Spur Road
Existed	1968–present
Component; highways	E1; AH 26 (E1) from Balintawak to Santa Rita, Guiguinto; N160 and R-8 R-8 in Quezon City, Caloocan, and Malabon;
Restrictions	No motorcycles below 400cc
Major junctions
North end	N213 (Mabalacat–Magalang Road) in Mabalacat;
	E1 (Subic–Clark–Tarlac Expressway) in Mabalacat; N3 (Jose Abad Santos Avenue) in San Fernando; AH 26 (N1) (Maharlika Highway) in Guiguinto; N247 (Plaridel Bypass Road) in Balagtas; E5 (NLEX Harbor Link) in Valenzuela;
South end	AH 26 (N1) (EDSA) / N160 (A. Bonifacio Avenue) at Balintawak Cloverleaf, Quezon City
Location
Country	Philippines
Regions	Central Luzon and Metro Manila
Provinces	Bulacan and Pampanga
Major cities	Angeles City, Caloocan, Mabalacat, Malabon, Malolos, Meycauayan, San Fernando, Quezon City, Valenzuela
Towns	Apalit, Bocaue, Balagtas, Calumpit, Guiguinto, Marilao, Mexico, Plaridel, Pulilan, San Simon, Santo Tomas
Highway system
	Roads in the Philippines; Highways; Expressways List; ;

The North Luzon Expressway (NLEX),^[a] signed as E1 of the Philippine expressway network, partially as N160^[b] of the Philippine highway network, and partially as R-8^[b] of the Metro Manila arterial road network,^[c] is a controlled-access highway that connects Metro Manila to the provinces of the Central Luzon region in the Philippines. The expressway, which includes the main segment and its various spurs, has a total length of 101.8 kilometers (63.3 mi) and travels from its northern terminus at Santa Ines Interchange to its southern terminus in Balintawak Interchange, which is adjacent to its connection to Skyway, an elevated toll road that connects the NLEX to its counterpart in the south, the South Luzon Expressway. The segment of the expressway between Santa Rita Exit in Guiguinto and the Balintawak Interchange in Quezon City is part of Asian Highway 26 of the Asian highway network. Despite that the name stating the word "North Luzon", the expressway only ends at Santa Ines Exit at Mabalacat, Pampanga which is located in Central Luzon.

The expressway also serves as a major utility corridor, carrying various high voltage overhead power lines through densely populated areas where acquisition and designation of right of way or power line alignment and lands for their associated structures is impractical. A notable power line using the expressway's right of way for most or part of the route is the Hermosa–Duhat–Balintawak transmission line where it utilizes the alignment or right of way of North Luzon Tollway (NLT) or NLEX Main from San Fernando Exit in San Fernando, Pampanga to Harbor Link Interchange in Valenzuela, Metro Manila, with the power line also represents how close a motorist does to Metro Manila if going southbound and San Fernando if northbound.

The North Luzon Expressway was built in the 1960s as part of the government's program to develop areas adjacent to Metro Manila, with NLEX serving the north. The expressway was originally controlled by the Philippine National Construction Corporation (PNCC), until the expressway's operations and maintenance was transferred on February 10, 2005, to the NLEX Corporation, a subsidiary of Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (a former subsidiary of Lopez Holdings Corporation until August 2008). The expressway was expanded and rehabilitated from 2003 to February 2005, modernizing the road and its facilities.

^ Cite error: The named reference pncc was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference dashboard was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).

[pncc-1] Cite error: The named reference pncc was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[dashboard-2] Cite error: The named reference dashboard was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

North Luzon Expressway information

and 26 Related for: North Luzon Expressway information

North Luzon Expressway

List of expressways in the Philippines

North Luzon East Expressway

South Luzon Expressway

Philippine expressway network

NLEX Corporation

Central Luzon Link Expressway

NLEX Connector

Harbor Link Interchange

NLEX Harbor Link

Subic Freeport Expressway

Southeast Metro Manila Expressway

North Expressway

Circumferential Road 6

Maysan Road

Metro Manila Skyway

Balintawak

NAIA Expressway

Radial Road 8

Jose Abad Santos Avenue

Candaba Viaduct

Circumferential Road 5

Ciudad de Victoria

Balintawak Interchange

Plaridel Bypass Road

NLE