Dimasalang Street

Dimasalang Street is a major road between the districts of Sampaloc and Santa Cruz in the Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. Running 1.9 kilometers (1.2 mi) in the north–south direction, it connects Lacson Avenue and Laon Laan Street in the south to Blumentritt Road, near the city's border with Quezon City, in the north. It also crosses over the Philippine National Railway tracks and below NLEX Connector at Dimasalang Bridge. It is named after Dimasalang, one of the pen names of the Philippine national hero José Rizal.[2]

R-8 Dimasalang Street
Dimasalang Road
Dimasalang Street looking north towards the Dimasalang Bridge in 2017
Route information
Maintained by Department of Public Works and Highways – North Manila District Engineering Office[1]
Length	1.9 km (1.2 mi)
Component highways	R-8 R-8 N162
Major junctions
North end	N160 (Blumentritt Road)
South end	N140 (Lacson Avenue) and Laon Laan Street
Location
Country	Philippines
Major cities	Manila
Highway system
Roads in the Philippines Highways Expressways List
← N161 → N170

The entire route is designated as National Route 162 (N162) of the Philippine highway network and a component of Radial Road 8 of the Metro Manila arterial road system.