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Other names | Ninoy Aquino N. Aquino | ||||||||||
Location | Ninoy Aquino Avenue Santo Niño, Parañaque | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 14°29′55″N 120°59′40″E / 14.49864°N 120.99436°E | ||||||||||
Owned by | Light Rail Manila Corporation | ||||||||||
Line(s) | Line 1 | ||||||||||
Platforms | 2 (2 side)[1] | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2[1] | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||
Accessible | Platforms: All platforms | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | November 16, 2024 | ||||||||||
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Ninoy Aquino Avenue station,[2] also simply known as Ninoy Aquino station or N. Aquino station,[3] is an elevated Light Rail Transit (LRT) station located on the LRT Line 1 (LRT-1) system in Santo Niño, Parañaque. The station is part of the Line 1 Cavite Extension Project, which opened to the public on November 16, 2024. The station is built on the east bank of the Parañaque River and is above its namesake, Ninoy Aquino Avenue, which is in turn named after Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr., a former senator who was assassinated at the nearby airport in 1983.
The station is the second station for trains headed to Fernando Poe Jr., the twenty-fourth station for trains headed to Dr. Santos, and is one of the five LRT-1 stations in Parañaque; the others are Redemptorist-Aseana, MIA Road, PITX and Dr. Santos.
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