Philippine Metropolis: Why is Ortigas Station Far from Ortigas Avenue?

Ortigas MRT Station is a station on the Manila MRT Blue Line (MRT-3) in the Philippine Metropolis. The station is located in the Mandaluyong portion of Ortigas Center and is named after either Ortigas Center or

Ortigas Avenue, which is nearby.

It’s the sixth station for trains headed to Taft Avenue and the eighth station for trains headed to North Avenue and located directly beside the Asian Development Bank Complex. – courtesy of wikipedia.org

But shouldn’t it have been named Mega Mall Station or Asian Development Bank Station? It’s quite far from  Ortigas Avenue.

Our building is located along that avenue and I take the MRT everyday to get to that place. After getting off the train in Ortigas Station I need to walk for about 15 minutes.

So I was wondering why name it Ortigas Station or maybe just keep the name but build the station near Ortigas Avenue.

I made use of the 15-minute walk to figure it out.

Maybe:

1. Because of EDSA shrine there’s no place for a new structure in that area,
2. There’s a church and the loud train could disturb the people hearing mass,
3. The wave of people coming out of the train station would cause traffic along EDSA and Ortigas Intersection,
4. POEA could be one factor. There are too many people there everyday. And the sidewalk during the day is saturated with applicants and vendors, or
5. The builders really meant it for people to take that 15-minute walk and wonder or figure out why the station was build far from the supposed avenue.

Up to now I’m still wondering why. After maybe another few months of walking along EDSA I’d be able to figure it out.

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