(File photo) MANILA - In the first half of the 1970s, when then newly-built Manila North Diversion Road (MNDR) from Balintawak, Quezon City to Tabang, Guiguinto, Bulacan was opened to passenger buses, travelers bound for Metro Manila from anywhere in Northern and Central Luzon used to be asked by conductors upon reaching the end of the limited access route near Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue (Edsa) in Balintawak: "May baba ba sa Balintawak?" (Is anyone getting off in Balintawak?) The same question was being asked from passengers by drivers of public utility jeepneys (PUJs) plying the Novaliches-Blumentritt (Manila) route through Quirino Highway-Balintawak-A. Bonifacio Avenue and vice versa. Conductors of buses from Sapang Palay, San Jose del Monte, Bulacan to Sta. Cruz, Manila also did the same. At that time Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City was not yet extended until Quirino Highway in Novaliches. Mindanao Avenue, on the other hand, was existing only until Project 6 and Baran
(File photo) MANILA - In the first half of the 1970s, when then newly-built Manila North Diversion Road (MNDR) from Balintawak, Quezon City to Tabang, Guiguinto, Bulacan was opened to passenger buses, travelers bound for Metro Manila from anywhere in Northern and Central Luzon used to be asked by conductors upon reaching the end of the limited access route near Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue (Edsa) in Balintawak: "May baba ba sa Balintawak?" (Is anyone getting off in Balintawak?) The same question was being asked from passengers by drivers of public utility jeepneys (PUJs) plying the Novaliches-Blumentritt (Manila) route through Quirino Highway-Balintawak-A. Bonifacio Avenue and vice versa. Conductors of buses from Sapang Palay, San Jose del Monte, Bulacan to Sta. Cruz, Manila also did the same. At that time Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City was not yet extended until Quirino Highway in Novaliches. Mindanao Avenue, on the other hand, was existing only until Project 6 and Baran