{
 "id": "era-monks-road-1935",
 "type": "era",
 "names": {
  "name": "1935 — the monk's road",
  "th": "2478 — ถนนครูบา",
  "said": "Eleven and a half kilometres up a mountain, by hand, in under six months.",
  "said_th": "สิบเอ็ดกิโลครึ่งขึ้นดอย ด้วยมือ ในไม่ถึงหกเดือน"
 },
 "region": [
  "city"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "era": "srivichai",
  "order": 5
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Kruba Srivichai's road up Doi Suthep: ground broken 9 November 1934, open to vehicles 30 April 1935, 11.53 km of earth and laterite, five months and twenty-two days, built by volunteers. Its own chapter because nothing else in the city's road history was made this way.",
  "story": "*Inference —* it is also the last road in this catalogue built for a reason other than traffic. Every road after it was built to move vehicles; this one was built to reach a relic."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "ถนนของครูบาศรีวิชัยขึ้นดอยสุเทพ เริ่มขุด 9 พฤศจิกายน 2477 เปิดให้รถ 30 เมษายน 2478 ดินและลูกรัง 11.53 กม. ห้าเดือนยี่สิบสองวัน สร้างด้วยแรงศรัทธา เป็นบทของตัวเองเพราะไม่มีอะไรในประวัติถนนของเมืองที่สร้างแบบนี้",
  "story": "*อนุมาน —* มันยังเป็นถนนสายสุดท้ายในบัญชีนี้ที่สร้างด้วยเหตุผลอื่นนอกจากการจราจร ถนนทุกสายหลังจากนั้นสร้างเพื่อขนรถ สายนี้สร้างเพื่อไปถึงพระธาตุ"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "kruba-srivichai",
   "as": "The monk.",
   "rel": "person"
  },
  {
   "to": "si-wichai-road",
   "as": "The road.",
   "rel": "road"
  }
 ],
 "tags": [
  "heritage"
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:thwp-si-wichai",
  "s:citylife-elephant"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:thwp-si-wichai"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, in the northern register where it fits; not machine-translated"
   },
   "text.story": {
    "tier": "inference"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "schema": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-21",
 "images": [
  {
   "file": "era-monks-road-1935/era-monks-road-1935-20171106-road-below-wat-phrathat-doi-suthep-monaster-2049445.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:20171106 Road below Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep monastery 0058 DxO.jpg",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/20171106_Road_below_Wat_Phrathat_Doi_Suthep_monastery_0058_DxO.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
   "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3A20171106_Road_below_Wat_Phrathat_Doi_Suthep_monastery_0058_DxO.jpg",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
   "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
   "author": "Jakub Hałun",
   "credit": "Own work",
   "alt": "A road below Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep monastery in Doi Suthep-Pui National Park",
   "date": "2017-11-06 10:19:03",
   "primary": true,
   "sha256": "17e18e84aaada2e97b99aa50bb5275008a780d71518effa4f35487b507610ac6"
  }
 ],
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "kruba-srivichai",
   "type": "person",
   "name": "Kruba Srivichai",
   "as": "The era named for it."
  }
 ]
}