Doroteo Jose LRT Station
Location	Santa Cruz, Manila
Operational	May 12, 1985
Line	Yellow Line
Platforms	2

Doroteo Jose LRT Station is a station on the Manila LRT Yellow Line (LRT-1). Like all other LRT-1 stations, Doroteo Jose station station is above-ground. The station is located in Santa Cruz in Manila, on Taft Avenue and slightly past Doroteo Jose Street. The station is named after Doroteo Jose Street. Manila (Filipino: Maynila) is the capital of the Philippines. ... May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (133rd in leap years). ... This article is about the year. ... Logo of the LRTA A Yellow Line train stopping at a station A Purple Line train parked at Santolan station. ... Manila (Filipino: Maynila) is the capital of the Philippines. ...

Doroteo Jose station is the second station of LRT-1 north of the Pasig River, after Carriedo station. It is the eighth station for trains headed to Baclaran and the eleventh station for trains headed to Monumento. The Pasig River is a river in the Philippines that drains Laguna de Bay (via the Napindan Channel) into Manila Bay. ... Carriedo LRT Station is a station on the Manila LRT Yellow Line (LRT-1). ... Baclaran LRT Station is a station on the Manila LRT Yellow Line (LRT-1). ... Monumento LRT Station is a station on the Manila LRT Yellow Line (LRT-1). ...

The station is near the Manila City Jail, which houses some of Manila's criminals. It is also near the Fabella Memorial Hospital, which is near the jail. Popular shopping centers such as the Isetann shopping center and the Quiapo Bargain Center are also nearby. Due to its position of being near the University Belt, the station is also close to educational institutions such as Far Eastern University and the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Far Eastern University (FEU) in the City of Manila is a nonsectarian, private institution of higher learning in the Philippines. ... Ushering in its Centennial Year, the Polytechnic University of the Philippines attempted to become the newest record-holder for the Worlds Largest Human Rainbow. The Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) is a Philippine state university. ...

Transportation links

Doroteo Jose station serves as the transfer point between LRT-1 and the LRT Purple Line, or MRT-2. The station is connected to Recto station by means of a crossway that was recently constructed.

The station, being near the University Belt of Manila, serves as an important transfer point for buses, taxis and cycle rickshaws, although this role is also being given to the closer Recto station. Buses stop at the bus terminal on C.M. Recto Avenue.

Childbirth at the station

On May 5, 2005, Lea Aquino Ababa of Pasay City gave birth to a baby girl inside the station on her way to Fabella Memorial Hospital for a checkup, the first time a baby was born and the first time an LRT passenger gave birth inside an LRT station. She was named Dorotea, after the name of the station. May 5 is the 125th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (126th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pasay City is one of the cities and municipalities that comprise Metro Manila in the Philippines. ... Childbirth (also called labo(u)r, birth, partus or parturition) is the culmination of a human pregnancy with the emergence of a newborn infant from its mothers uterus. ...