Bourne Legacy To Start Shooting at Marikina Public Market Tomorrow

The international movie "Bourne Legacy" is rumored to start shooting scenes from the Marikina Public Market, known as Marikina Market Mall, or to Marikenos as "Palengke sa Bayan." The shoot is rumored to take place across Mercury Drugstore along W Paz where the fruit and meat section of the public market is located.

The original date publicly mentioned is that the movie crew will start shooting from February 1 to 4, 2012, however some sightings, perhaps preparations in line for the taping have been spotted.

The fourth “Bourne” movie series based on the spy novels of Robert Ludlum previously shot scenes in Manila and is also set to shoot in Malabon and El Nido in Palawan.

UPDATE AS OF FEB 7 2012: Sign spotted at the Marikina Public Market says shooting will be from Feb 8 - 10.  Marikina Sports Center is being used as venue for parking everything to be used for the shoot.

From MMDA:
ADVISORY: Bourne Legacy Filming February 8-9,2012
CLOSE TO TRAFFIC MARIKINA MARKET AREA

WESTBOUND (from Antipolo to Aurora Boulevard)
Along Sumulong highway,right turn at Shoe Avenue left turn at V.Santos,left turn at J.P Rizal,right turn at A.Bonifacio Avenue to point of destination.

EASTBOUND (from Aurora Boulevard to Antipolo)
Along A.Bonifacio Avenue, right turn at J.P Rizal, left turn at W.Dela Paz,left turn at Shoe Avenue,right turn at Sumulong Highway to 
point of destination. 


Other rumors from Facebook regarding shoot locations:

• Along H. Roxas corner JP Rizal (that's the street after the San Roque Chapel). Rumored to shoot Feb 9, 2012 early morning.
• Car chase scene from the Sto. Nino Chapel (along JP Rizal, near the bridge) to Calumpang on Feb 8, 2012. Residents were asked not to put out garbage.

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Cirma Street: New Road Opens in Sto. Nino

There is a new street which is set to be opened to the public soon.

Cirma Street lies within Sto. Nino and connects Toyota Street (beside Toyota Marikina) and Shoe Avenue (beside the old Rempson/Greendale complex). This 4-lane street extends the backroad of the Bluewave Marquinton compound and passes at the back of Metrobank Sumulong Highway and Greendale connecting to Shoe Avenue.

The road is expected to ease up congestion in nearby areas plus serve as additional routes for passing through the Bayan and Paliparan areas at one point and Sumulong Highway and Gil Fernando Ave. at the other point.

Currently, the closed road is being used as a temporary parking lot.

Floating Lights

I bet you're familiar with street lights located along the sidewalks on top of tall posts.   Some wide roads may have some additional lamp posts on the island divider.

You may be amazed with the Marikina street lights along A. Bonifacio... because they're floating at the center !

Along the stretch of A. Bonifacio street from Marcos Highway passing through Barangka and Sto. Nino,  all the way to the Marikina Bridge are a long series of lights floating above and center of the road.

  

The lights are actually suspended by cables which are fastened from both sides of the street.  In addition, all the lights are connected via cables from one light to the other, creating some sort of a web of cables but are barely visible especially at night.   It gives off the effect of floating lights.   Also, the lights make the road well lighted as opposed to the standard lamp posts which light up the sidewalk and could barely light the road.

I haven't seen this in any other city in the Metropolis so seeing this in Marikina makes the city unique.