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[1] (52 mi) Including Tabang Spur Road
Existed	1968–present
Component highways	E1 AH 26 (E1) from Balintawak to Santa Rita, Guiguinto N160 in Quezon City and Caloocan R-8 R-8 from Balintawak Interchange to SCTEX[2]
Restrictions	No motorcycles below 400cc
Major junctions
North end	N213 (Mabalacat–Magalang Road) in Mabalacat
Major intersections	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.

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