How to Commute to Alabang from Lucena

Start Point: Lucena Bayan
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Route used: Merchant St. > Hermana Fausta St. > Quezon Avenue > Tayabas-Lucena-Road > Pan-Philippine Highway (Maharlika Highway) > SLEX > Starmall premises > Alabang-Zapote Road

Estimated travel time: 3-4 hours depending on traffic

1. Get on any jeep with placard "Lucena Grand Terminal."
2. At the bus terminal, make your way to the buses with placard "Alabang-Starmall." If you're facing the Jollibee at the terminal, go through that hallway and turn right at the end. This route is serviced by N. Dela Rosa Liner.
3. Once the bus reaches Alabang, it will first pass by Alabang-Starmall before proceeding to Alabang South Station. You can get off at either point depending on your eventual destination.

How to Commute to Lucena from Alabang

Start Point: Alabang South Station
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Route used: Alabang-Zapote Road > SLEX > Pan-Philippine Highway (Maharlika Highway)

Estimated travel time: 3-4 hours depending on traffic

1. The provincial bus terminal in South Station is located on the side nearest the Alabang exit of SLEX. If you're on Alabang-Zapote Road facing South Station, it's a straight line towards the very rear of South Station.
2. The bus line servicing this route is N. Dela Rosa Liner. Get on any of its buses going to Lucena (they're parked beside the public restroom).

Note: You have a choice of aircon or non-aircon buses. For comfort and convenience, go with the aircon bus but if you're on a budget, the non-aircon bus has a slightly cheaper fare.

3. Tell the conductor to drop you off at Lucena. You can get off at the intersection of the Pan-Philippine Highway and the Tayabas-Lucena Road.

Landmark: A Jollibee store sits at the corner, and the conductor will also inform you that you can already get down. (See it in Google Maps)

Note: That portion of the Pan-Philippine Highway is also called the Lucena Diversion Road. So sometimes you'll hear the conductor yell, "Diversion Road, pa-bayan!" That's your cue to get down.

4. Once you get down, there are already jeeps in the area heading to Lucena Bayan.

Note: You can keep riding the bus and get down at Lucena Grand Terminal. There are jeeps there also heading to Lucena Bayan but they will also make their turn at the area mentioned in Step 3. So you may as well shortcut the process by following Step 3 above.

How to Commute to Landmark, Makati from Jupiter Street

Start Point: Petron station, Makati Avenue
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Route used: Makati Avenue > Parkway Drive

1. You can wait for jeeps going to Landmark at the Petron station located at the corner of Jupiter Street and Makati Avenue. Simply get on any jeep with the "Landmark" placard.
2. The jeep will stop in front of Landmark after it turns left into Parkway Drive (across from Landmark will be Glorietta 5).

How to Commute to Trinoma from Greenhills

Start point: Virramall
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Route used: Ortigas Avenue > EDSA (bus / MRT-3)

1. At the main exit of Virramall fronting Ortigas Avenue (where the buses and jeeps coming from EDSA drop passengers off to Virramall), use the pedestrian overpass nearby to cross the street.
2. Once on the other side, there is a jeepney terminal at the base of the overpass.
3. Tell the driver you will get down at EDSA. The jeep will usually stop beside the POEA building and from there it's a short walk to the corner of EDSA and Ortigas Avenue.
4. Get on any southbound bus and get off at the MRT-3 Ortigas Avenue station.

Note 1: It's possible to walk towards Ortigas station but it's a long walk.

Note 2: You could actually just cross EDSA from where you are towards Robinson's Galleria and take a bus, but with so many stops and traffic along EDSA, it's better to just take the MRT.

5. Cross to the other side of Ortigas Avenue station via the pedestrian overpass underneath the station and take the northbound train.
6. Get off at the end of the MRT line at North Avenue station. Beside the station is Trinoma Mall.

How to Commute to SM Southmall from Makati

Start point: SM Makati
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Route used: Palm Drive > EDSA > Magallanes interchange > SLEX (Skyway) > Alabang-Zapote Road

Option 1: via bus

1. At the bus stop outside SM Makati underneath the Ayala-MRT station, wait for any bus going to Alabang Metropolis / South Station.

Note: You can also ride the bus going to Pacita as long as it also has the Starmall / Metropolis placard (Pacita / Derecho buses will bypass Alabang exit). But Pacita buses will not pass by South Station and you will need to get down just beyond the Alabang exit tollgate and walk further going to South Station. You may as well just wait for a bus that will pass South Station itself.

2. Get off at South Station and make your way to the jeepney terminal where jeepneys going to Zapote are parked.
3. You may ride the jeeps with the following placards:

- Las Pinas
- Zapote Kabila
- Baclaran Coastal
- SM Southmall
- Casimiro
- Moonwalk

4. Get off at SM Southmall (it will be on the left side of the road).

Option 2: via FX

1. From SM Makati, cross Palm Drive to get to Park Square building (it's on the same side of the road as Dusit Thani Hotel).
2. At the ground floor of Park Square, look for the FX/vans headed to Las Pinas.
3. Tell the driver to drop you off at SM Southmall.

How to Commute to Alabang from Greenhills

Start Point: Virramall
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Route used: EDSA (MRT-3 / bus) > Magallanes Interchange > SLEX / Skyway

1. At the main exit of Virramall fronting Ortigas Avenue (where the buses and jeeps coming from EDSA drop passengers off to Virramall), use the pedestrian overpass nearby to cross the street.
2. Once on the other side, there is a jeepney terminal at the base of the overpass.
3. Tell the driver you will get down at EDSA. The jeep will usually stop beside the POEA building and from there it's a short walk to the corner of EDSA and Ortigas Avenue.
4. From this point, you have two options: take the bus all the way to Alabang, or use the MRT-3 to get to Ayala Avenue station so that you can skip most of the traffic in EDSA.

Via bus (only one ride to Alabang but ideal during days of light traffic on EDSA such as Sundays)

a. You can wait for a bus in front of the POEA building, but if there's an MMDA enforcer he will direct you to the bus stop about 30 more meters away, in front of a 24-hour convenience store.
b. Get on any bus with placards "Alabang-Metropolis / South Station" or "Pacita / Alabang-Starmall"

Caution: Don't get on any "Pacita Derecho" bus because it will bypass Alabang.

c. Pacita-bound buses will drop you off just after the tollgate beside the Alabang viaduct, while South Station-bound buses will drop you off inside Alabang South Station.

Via MRT-3 (more walking and more transfers but helps you skip most of the traffic in EDSA)

a. Get on any southbound (i.e. headed to Makati) bus and get off at the MRT-3 Ortigas Avenue station.

Note: If you want to save on bus fare you can just walk to the MRT-3 station but it's a long walk.

b. At the Ortigas Avenue station, get on the southbound train and get off at MRT-3 Ayala station.
c. Exit Ayala station on the same side as SM Makati to get to the bus waiting station underneath Ayala Avenue station.
d. Get on any bus with placards "Alabang-Metropolis / South Station" or "Pacita / Alabang-Starmall"

Caution: Don't get on any "Pacita Derecho" bus because it will bypass Alabang.

e. Pacita-bound buses will drop you off just after the tollgate beside the Alabang viaduct, while South Station-bound buses will drop you off inside Alabang South Station.

How to Commute to Greenhills from Trinoma Mall

Start Point: Trinoma Mall
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Route used: EDSA (MRT-3 / bus) > Ortigas Avenue

1. From Trinoma, exit into the MRT-3 North Avenue station and cross over to the other side of the station so you can get on the southbound train.
2. Get off at MRT-3 Santolan-Annapolis station. Upon exiting the turnstile head down towards EDSA.
3. From the MRT station, head towards Annapolis Street. Just a few meters from the corner of Annapolis Street and EDSA is a jeepney terminal. The jeep will enter Greenhills Shopping Center so you can get down near the cinema area.