North Luzon Expressway facts for kids

The North Luzon Expressway as it passes through the city of Valenzuela.

A toll plaza of the expressway.

The North Luzon Expressway, more commonly known by its abbreviation NLEx or NLEX, is a controlled-access highway in the Philippines. It connects the National Capital Region (or Metro Manila) to the provinces of the central part of Luzon, the main island in the country. Measuring 84 kilometers long, it starts at a cloverleaf-shaped interchange in Quezon City, where the controlled-access highway, the Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, and the Bonifacio Avenue meet. It then passes through the settlements of Caloocan and Valenzuela in the capital area and the provinces of Bulacan and Pampanga in Central Luzon. It ends at an exit in the settlement of Mabalacat and joins with the MacArthur Highway with the help of a road, continuing northward into the remaining part of Central Luzon and the Northern Luzon. The whole controlled-access highway has 4 to 8 lanes (with 2 to 4 lanes in each direction).

Images for kids

• 

  NLEX near the Santa Rita interchange in Guiguinto

• 

  Balintawak Interchange in 1968

• 

  A segment of NLEX in 1999, with a passing Partas bus

• 

  The San Fernando toll plaza in 2001, few years before the rehabilitation

• 

  NLEX in San Simon, after the 2016 expansion project

• 

  Construction progress at Blumentritt PNR station (March 2022)

• 

  Petron Km. 23 in Marilao

• 

  A toll barrier of the Santa Rita Exit

• 

  The west end of Tabang Spur Road at Guiguinto Exit

See also

In Spanish: Autopista del Norte de Luzón para niños