The Parañaque City Council is officially urging the Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA) to rename one of the new LRT-1 extension stations from “Dr. Santos” to “Dr. Arcadio Santos.”
In Resolution No. 2025-230 (004), the 10th Council argued that the shortened name “Dr. Santos” is too generic and fails to properly honor local history. The council seeks to recognize Dr. Arcadio Santos, a Parañaque native and former Rizal governor, after whom the nearby avenue is named.
The resolution states that “the station name Dr. Santos is a common name, thus, there is a need to rename the station to Dr. Arcadio Santos.”
The Dr. Santos station is one of five new stops inaugurated in November 2024 as part of the LRT-1 Cavite Extension Phase 1, which also includes Redemptorist-ASEANA, MIA Road, Asia World (PITX), and Ninoy Aquino Avenue stations.
The extension has boosted LRT-1’s daily ridership by roughly 80,000 passengers and reduced travel time between Parañaque and Quezon City by nearly an hour.