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Blumentritt
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| Location | Rizal Avenue, Santa Cruz Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 14°37′21.82″N 120°58′58.4″E / 14.6227278°N 120.982889°E / 14.6227278; 120.982889 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Department of Transportation Light Rail Manila Corporation | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | LRT Line 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 (2side) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections |  Blumentritt | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Elevated | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | BL | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | May 12, 1985; 39 years ago (1985-05-12) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Blumentritt station is an elevated Light Rail Transit (LRT) station located on the LRT Line 1 (LRT-1) system in Manila, Philippines. The station serves the districts of Tondo, Santa Cruz, and Sampaloc. The station is situated near Blumentritt Road and is named after it. The street itself is named to honor Bohemian professor Ferdinand Blumentritt, one of José Rizal's closest associates and a sympathizer of the Propaganda Movement.
With the ongoing construction of NLEX Connector (previously known as NLEX-SLEX Connector Road), the station was built below the elevated expressway.
Blumentritt station serves as the seventh station for LRT-1 trains headed to Baclaran, and the fourteenth station for trains headed to Fernando Poe Jr. It is one of the five Line 1 stations serving Santa Cruz District, the others being Tayuman, Bambang, Doroteo Jose, and Carriedo.
It is the second-to last station on Rizal Avenue before the line shifts to Rizal Avenue Extension at Abad Santos station.
Blumentritt station is one of the locations where a bomb exploded in a train cab on December 30, 2000, during the Rizal Day bombings that caused 22 fatalities and injuries to around 100.[1]
APhilippine National Railways (PNR) station with the same name exists just a short walk from the station. Buses, jeepneys and taxis that ply Rizal Avenue and nearby routes stop at Blumentritt station, where there is a nearby transportation terminal. Numerous tricycles could also be found near the station, servicing quick transportation from people disembarking from the station and from the jeepneys.
14°37′22.05″N 120°58′58.57″E / 14.6227917°N 120.9829361°E / 14.6227917; 120.9829361
